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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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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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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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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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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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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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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