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Cesare Pavese

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Artist Monk State
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
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Discussion Logic Philosophy Woman
But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Interest Lost Stupidity Time Wisdom
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Exception Life Live Point Yourself
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Complete Man Success Transcendence Work
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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Kill Love Naked Nothing Vulnerable Woman
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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Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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Happiness Love Poetry Remember Share Writing
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work

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