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Love is the cheapest of religions.

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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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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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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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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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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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When a woman marries she belongs to another man and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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