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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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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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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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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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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 mix wine and women.
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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by 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 can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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