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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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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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I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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