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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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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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