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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 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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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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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When a woman marries she belongs to another man and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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