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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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