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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.

Cesare Pavese

It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESE

Alone Born Cry Death Point
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Goodness Reason Suicide
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Fear Jealous Light Selfish Travel Yourself
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
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Descend Escape Sound
Love is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESE

Cheap Love One Liner Religion
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
CESARE PAVESE

Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Absence Life Smoking
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Born Complete Difference Perfection
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
CESARE PAVESE

Access Desire Oneself Possession Woman Worth
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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Drop End Life Party
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
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
There is something indecent in words .
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Decent Word
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
CESARE PAVESE

Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True

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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