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Cesare Pavese Quotes about Lying

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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.

Cesare Pavese
Lying, Ocean, Sea
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

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

But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.

Cesare Pavese
Lying, Mean, Hiding

People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.

Cesare Pavese
Lying, Party, Dark
"The Moon and the Bonfire". Book by Cesare Pavese. Chapter XXVI, p. 149, 1950.

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