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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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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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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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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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