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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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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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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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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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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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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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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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