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Cesare Pavese

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

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

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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."

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"Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes."

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"Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?"

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"Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness."

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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."

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"I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange."

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"Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men."

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"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process."

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"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building."

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"If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be."
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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."
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