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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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When a woman marries she belongs to another man and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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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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