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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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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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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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To know the world, one must construct it
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