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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 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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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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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