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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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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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To know the world, one must construct it
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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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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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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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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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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