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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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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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Don't mix wine and women.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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