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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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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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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 only joy in the world is to begin.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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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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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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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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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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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