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Quotation by Cesare Pavese
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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)
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defence against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering.... Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950), Italian poet, novelist, translator. The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950, entry for Nov. 10, 1938 (1952, trans. 1961).
Suicide was a continuing theme in Pavese's diaries; he took his own life on Aug. 27, 1950, shortly after being awarded the Strega Prize for Literature.
Suicide was a continuing theme in Pavese's diaries; he took his own life on Aug. 27, 1950, shortly after being awarded the Strega Prize for Literature.
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