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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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Knowledge
Desire
Love

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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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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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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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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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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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