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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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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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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To know the world, one must construct it
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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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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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