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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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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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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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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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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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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