Cesare Pavese
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"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.

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.

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

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.

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

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?