Cesare Pavese Quotes About Pleasure
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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