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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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 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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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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 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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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