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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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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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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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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