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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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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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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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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
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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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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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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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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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