Cesare Pavese Quotes

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

• Pleasure
• Obsessed
• Test
• Futility
• No Longer

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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.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Pleasure
  • Obsessed
  • Test