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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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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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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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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 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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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