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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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