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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 problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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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 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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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