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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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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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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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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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