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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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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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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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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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