Cesare Pavese on Mind
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Cesare Pavese, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Cesare Pavese, entry #172449: "The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's."
Attributed to Cesare Pavese, entry #69825: "In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid."
5 Quotes by Cesare Pavese on Mind
"The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's."
"In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid."
"I started explaining to her that nothing is vulgar in itself but that talking and thinking make it so."
"That war in which I had been sheltering, convinced of having accepted it, of having made my own uncomfortable peace, grew more ferocious, bit deeper, reached into one's nerves and brain."
"No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern."