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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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 search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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To know the world, one must construct it
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