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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

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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. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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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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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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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