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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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