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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.

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 man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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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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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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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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