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Love is desire for knowledge.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Love

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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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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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To know the world, one must construct it
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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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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