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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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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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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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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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