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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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