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• Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.

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  Memories, Mean, Firsts

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.203, Transaction Publishers

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• Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.

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  War, One Day, Doe

  "The House on the Hill". Book by Cesare Pavese. Ending words, 1949.

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• Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

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  Men, Would Be, Furious

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

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• Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

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  Perfect, Behaviour, Indifference

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

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• Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.

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  Suicide, Ambition, Difficulty

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.73, 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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• When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

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  Men, Humiliation, Mourn

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.51, Transaction Publishers

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• Don't mix wine and women.

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  Wine, Women And Wine

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

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  Revenge, Men, Generous Man

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

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• A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

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  Work, Men, Quality

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.174, Transaction Publishers

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• A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.

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  What Matters, Suffering, World

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.78, Transaction Publishers

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• 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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  Art, Opposites, Two

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

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• From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

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  Destiny, Want, Cigarette

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• A corpse is what's left after waking too often.

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  Waking, Corpses, Left

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• A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

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  Brother, Love You, Wish

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

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  People, Care, Littles

  Diary entry for July 08, 1938. "This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950". Book by Cesare Pavese, 2009.

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• Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

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  Thoughts Of Death, Repose

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.92, Transaction Publishers

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• It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

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  Children, Believe, Imagination

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

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  Writing, Fire, Ideas

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.90, Transaction Publishers

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• For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

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  History, Doe, Lafayette

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

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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.

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  Life, Education, Mistake

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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• 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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  Acceptance, Personality, Interest

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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.

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  Love, Doe, Misery

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

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• But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

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  Stupid, Years, Interesting

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

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