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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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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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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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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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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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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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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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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