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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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More quotes by Cesare Pavese
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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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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Don't mix wine and women.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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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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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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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