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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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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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 cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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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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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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