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To know the world, one must construct it
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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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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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
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I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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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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