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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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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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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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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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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
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There is something indecent in words .
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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