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• You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

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  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.104, Transaction Publishers

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• We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

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  Fun, Our Words, Might

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.

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  Time, Men, Brutal

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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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• You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

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  Home, Mean, Knowing

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• We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

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  Two, Failing, Commit

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

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  Children, Doe, Realizing

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.50, Transaction Publishers

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• The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

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  Art, Lying, Believe

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

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

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  Life, Time, Party

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• Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

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  Writing, Talking, Two

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.276, 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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• 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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• 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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• Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

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  Destiny, Fundamentals, Levels

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

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  Strong, Men, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.58, Transaction Publishers

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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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• When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

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  Dream, Ends, Know How

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.229, Transaction Publishers

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• The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

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  Life, Art, Lying

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.71, 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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• 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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• Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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  Life, Luxury, Pay The Price

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.105, Transaction Publishers

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• No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.

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  Men, Thinking, Always Trying

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.131, Transaction Publishers

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• There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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  Life, Alive, Misery

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.281, Transaction Publishers

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• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

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  Mean, Fighting, Air

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.211, Routledge

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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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