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Cesare Pavese Quotes about Suffering

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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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Believe, Men, Suffering
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.104, Transaction Publishers

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

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Real, Suffering, Purpose
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.57, Transaction Publishers

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

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Long, Silence, Suffering
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

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What Matters, Suffering, World
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.78, 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.

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

To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

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Suicide, Choices, Suffering
Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.117, Transaction Publishers

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