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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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 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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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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To know the world, one must construct it
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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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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