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Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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There is something indecent in words .
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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