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Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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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.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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