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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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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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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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There is something indecent in words .
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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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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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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