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One must look for one thing only, to find many.

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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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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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
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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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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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