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To know the world, one must construct it

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
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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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Don't mix wine and women.
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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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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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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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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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