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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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When a woman marries she belongs to another man and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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 at that point.
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