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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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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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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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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 know the world, one must construct it
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Don't mix wine and women.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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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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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
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