Anguish Quote by Cesare Pavese

“The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.”

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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night…

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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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Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask…

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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live…

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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is;…

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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

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“Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no…

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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.

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