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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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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 we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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