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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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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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 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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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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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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