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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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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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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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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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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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