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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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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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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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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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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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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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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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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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