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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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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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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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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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 writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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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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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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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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