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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.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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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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