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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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Journalist
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Literary Critic
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Screenwriter
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Life
Cheapest
Religions
Love

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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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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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