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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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To know the world, one must construct it
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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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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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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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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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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