Quote by Cesare Pavese
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. - Ces

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. – Cesare Pavese

Other quotes by Cesare Pavese

Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese

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power
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love — any love — reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. – Cesare Pavese

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Infatuation
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. – Cesare Pavese

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Money
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Other Quotes from
Society
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I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. – Barbara Kingsolver

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Society

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon well need a new definition. – Alvin Toffler

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Society

Even if one is interested only in ones own society, which is ones prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others. – Peter L. Berger

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Society

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye

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Society

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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

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