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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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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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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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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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