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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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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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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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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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