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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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Literary Critic
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Knowledge
Desire
Love

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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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To know the world, one must construct it
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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