Cesare Pavese Quotes About Desire

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  • Love is desire for knowledge.

    Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.245, Routledge
  • It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.106, Transaction Publishers
  • What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

    Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.119, Transaction Publishers
  • The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.

    Diary entry for February 03, 1943. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.
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