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Cesare Pavese

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.


— Cesare Pavese


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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.


— Cesare Pavese


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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.


— Cesare Pavese


#good #good reason #lacks #reason #suicide

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.


— 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


#because #does #kill #love #misery

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.


— Cesare Pavese


#being #better #child #does #make

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.


— Cesare Pavese


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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.


— Cesare Pavese


#between #body #clash #else #hate






About Cesare Pavese

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Did you know about Cesare Pavese?

for the Italians his death has come to have a weight like that of Hart Crane for us a meaning that penetrates back into his own work and functions as a symbol in the literature of an age. As a young man of letters Pavese had a particular interest in English-language literature graduating from the University of Turin with a thesis on the poetry of Walt Whitman. Bitter struggles took place between Germans and partisans in this area.

He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.

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