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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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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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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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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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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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