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Quotation by Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese (16)Additional Sources
The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950 (1952, trans. 1961)The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950 (1950, trans. 1961)Related Subjects
experience (10) pain (10) death (6) hope (5) love (5) happiness (4) Job (3) learning (3) endurance (3) joy (3)
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time—is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist, translator. The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950, entry for Oct. 30, 1940 (1952, trans. 1961).
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