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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be lifelong? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

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

The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

Cesare Pavese
Pain, Men, Feelings
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

Cesare Pavese
Art, Pain, Suffering
Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.207, Routledge

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