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• To know the world, one must construct it

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  Wisdom, World, Constructs

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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

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  Hate, Hatred, Body

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• The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

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  Loneliness, Break Out, Problem

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.135, Transaction Publishers

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• We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

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  Thinking, Deeds, Good Deeds

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.113, Transaction Publishers

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• Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

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  Reality, Imagination, Humans

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.109, Transaction Publishers

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• No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Reason

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.11, Transaction Publishers

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• One must look for one thing only, to find many.

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  Vision, Looks, One Thing

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.153, Transaction Publishers

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• 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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  Lying, Ocean, Sea

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• We obtain things when we no longer want them.

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  Want

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.179, Transaction Publishers

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

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  Ambition, Inferiority, Sin

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.101, Transaction Publishers

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• Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

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  Intelligent, Men, Fool

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

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  Destiny, Way, Mess

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

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• There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.

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  Bored, Mercy

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• The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.

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  Men, Practice, Fool

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.103, Transaction Publishers

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• 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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  Forgiveness, Stupidity, Forgiving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.214, Transaction Publishers

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• Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.

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  Home, Sleep, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.270, Transaction Publishers

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• Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

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  Suicide, Fall, Way

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

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• Love is the cheapest of religions.

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  Love, Life, Love Is

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.146, Transaction Publishers

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• Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

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  Hands, Giving, Political

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• It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

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  Desire, Want, Tests

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.106, Transaction Publishers

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• A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

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  Dream, Knowing, Creation

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

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  Hard Times, Destiny, Captains

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• 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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  Women, Believe, Philosopher

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

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• We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

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  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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• Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

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  Love, Pain, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.74, Transaction Publishers

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