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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.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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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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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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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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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