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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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Don't mix wine and women.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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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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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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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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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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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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