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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Artists Bourgeois Monks State

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

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Art Believe How Knowing Lies Living

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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

Topics: Addition Answer Chain Circumstances Complicated Find First Involving Like Living Long Make Means Mistake Never Oneself Out Right Sum Two Will Working You

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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Ambition Inferiority Origin Otherwise Sense Sins

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Lessons are not given, they are taken.

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Given Lessons Taken

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

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Always Between Body Clash Else Hate Our Someone Spirit

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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?

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Believe Child Children Imagination Imaginative Life Lives Makes Moments Only Rare Recollection Starts Survives True Us Were Which Within World

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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

Topics: Alone Boy Company Grown Grown Man He Man Never Used World Worst Youth

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Cheapest Love Love Is Religions

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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

~Cesare Pavese

Topics: Ever Good Good Reason Lacks Reason Suicide

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: September 9th, 1908

Died: August 27th, 1950

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