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

— 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.

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

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The real affliction of old age is remorse.

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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.

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

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