Short quotes

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Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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Writing poetry is like making love: one will never know if their own joy is shared.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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If it's true that we get used to pain, how is it that over the years we suffer more and more?

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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But the great, the tremendous truth is this: suffering is useless.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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The whole problem of life is this: how to break one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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It's called nostalgia, and it serves to remind us that, fortunately, we are also fragile.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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The lesson is always the same: to dive in headfirst and know how to endure the punishment.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Love is born of a sudden passion; friendship from frequent and prolonged interaction.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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Architecture is the least bribable witness of history.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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A nation without free elections is a nation without voice, without eyes, and without arms.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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The liberal society will be paralyzed if it stops being self-critical.