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Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
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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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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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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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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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