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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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