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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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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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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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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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I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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