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The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
— Cesare Pavese Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
— Cesare Pavese
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
— Cesare Pavese
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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.
— Cesare Pavese
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
— Cesare Pavese
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
— Cesare Pavese
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