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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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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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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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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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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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