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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
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Love

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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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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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 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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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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