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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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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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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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To know the world, one must construct it
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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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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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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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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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There is something indecent in words .
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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