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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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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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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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