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Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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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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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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