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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.

— Cesare Pavese This Business of Living (1935)

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He told me that it isn't what you do but how you do it that shows whether you are clever or not.

The Moon and the Bonfire (1950)

You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

The Beach (1941)

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

The Moon and the Bonfire (1950)

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

This Business of Living (1935)

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

The Moon and the Bonfire (1950)

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