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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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Don't mix wine and women.
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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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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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There is something indecent in words .
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