Italian - Poet | September 9, 1908 - August 27, 1950
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Cesare Pavese
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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