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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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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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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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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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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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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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.
Cesare Pavese
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
Cesare Pavese
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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