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Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is beautiful to live because to live is to begin, always, at every moment. When that sensation is missing, one would want to die.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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But the great, the tremendous truth is this: suffering is useless.

Cesare Pavese

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It's true that by suffering you can learn many things. The bad thing is that having suffered, we have lost the strength to make use of them.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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It's called nostalgia, and it serves to remind us that, fortunately, we are also fragile.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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The lesson is always the same: to dive in headfirst and know how to endure the punishment.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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Everything is in childhood, even that fascination that will be the future and that only then is felt as a wonderful shock.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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Love has the virtue of undressing not the two lovers facing each other, but each one in front of themselves.

Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese

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You will be loved on the day you can show your weakness without the other using it to assert their strength.

Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlova

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No one can reach the top armed only with talent. God gives the talent; work transforms talent into genius.

Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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The most dangerous human masses are those in whose veins the poison of fear has been injected... the fear of change.