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To know the world, one must construct it

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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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 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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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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