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There is something indecent in words .

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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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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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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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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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 don't remember days, you remember moments.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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