Quotes by Cesare Pavese

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In reading we are not looking for new ideas, but thoughts that we have thought, and which on the read page, get a stamp of confirmation. The words of others hit us with resonance, in an area that is more ours, more experienced by us. By making it vibrate, those words allow us to gather new starting points in our inner forum.

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Poetry is not meaning but state, not understanding but existence.

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A feeling when you try it is a living thing. And what is art if not a means by which a feeling, a content is eternalized in a form so that others can relive it?

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I don't live only from books and for books. But if you want a confession, I think the things that revealed my life were mostly books.

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The memory... repeated passion. We all have a childhood mountain. And no matter how far you carol, you find yourself on one of its paths. That's where we were made who we are.

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There comes a time when we realize that everything we do will in time become a memory. It's maturity. To get to it you have to have memories.