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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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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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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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