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Love is the cheapest of religions.

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 consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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 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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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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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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