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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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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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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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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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When a woman marries she belongs to another man and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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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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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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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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