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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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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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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without 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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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