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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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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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To know the world, one must construct it
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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