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Cesare Pavese

Born: September 9, 1908

Died: August 27, 1950

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Poet, novelist

Biography: Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.

Cesare Pavese

“A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.”

- Cesare Pavese

Source/Notes: This Business of Living (2009 edition), p. 202
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“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.”

- Cesare Pavese

Source/Notes: This Business of Living (1935-1950), 1938-09-19
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“Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.”

- Cesare Pavese

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“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”

- Cesare Pavese

Source/Notes: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950 (1961 edition), p. 121
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“Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.”

- Cesare Pavese

Source/Notes: In Italian: "L'odio è sempre una contrapposizione del nostro spirito al corpo altrui." Source: "Opere: Il mestiere di vivere (8th edition, 1947)", p. 129
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Cesare Pavese

“If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.”

- Cesare Pavese

Source/Notes: This Business of Living (1935-1950), 1940-03-17
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“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

- Cesare Pavese

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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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“Lessons are not given, they are taken.”

- Cesare Pavese

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

- Cesare Pavese

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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.”

- Cesare Pavese

Source/Notes: This Business of Living (1964 edition), Transaction Publishers - ISBN: 9781412839938
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“Love is the cheapest of religions.”

- Cesare Pavese

Source/Notes: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950 (Transaction Publishers, 1964), p. 146, 21st December, 1939
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“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”

- Cesare Pavese

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“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

- Cesare Pavese

Source/Notes: This Business of Living (1964 edition), Transaction Publishers - ISBN: 9781412839938
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