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Cesare Pavese

We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Balance Deep Feeling Opposite Problem Reality Wealth
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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Beyond Lying Ocean Reach World
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Commitment Failure Wrong
Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Occupation Patient Terrible
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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Hide Life Lose People Trick Worst
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Creation Dreams End Intelligence Present
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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Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Activity Fruit Personality Search
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
Love is desire for knowledge.
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Desire Knowledge Love One Liner

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