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Cesare Pavese Quotes about Life

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Cesare Pavese
Love, Life, Friendship
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Cesare Pavese
Life, Happiness, Success
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Cesare Pavese
Life, Luxury, Pay The Price
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.105, Transaction Publishers

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Cesare Pavese
Life, Time, Party

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Cesare Pavese
Life, Alive, Misery
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.281, Transaction Publishers

Love is the cheapest of religions.

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Love, Life, Love Is
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.146, Transaction Publishers

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Cesare Pavese
Life, Art, Lying
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Cesare Pavese
Life, Education, Mistake
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese
Love, Inspirational, Life
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

Cesare Pavese
Life, Young
"The Beach: And A Great Fire". Book by Cesare Pavese. Chapter 4, p. 27, 1941.

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