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Cesare Pavese
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„I realised that Nuto was quite right when he said that to live in a hovel or in a palace was one and the same thing, that blood is the same colour everywhere, and that everybody wants to be rich and in love and make their fortune.“
„Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?“
„It wasn’t a country where a man could settle down and rest his head and say to the others, “Here I am for good or ill. For good or ill let me leave in peace.”“
„There is something indecent in words.“
„There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.“
„All of them, all those idiots who force their brains and don’t know when to stop.“
„A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.“
„Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.“
„There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children.“
„The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.“
„Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.“
„Love is the cheapest of religions.“
„We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.“
„Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.“
„Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.“
„In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.“
„It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.“
„Not believing in anything is also a religion.“
„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.“
„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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