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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 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 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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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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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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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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