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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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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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