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Don't mix wine and women.

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Journalist
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Literary Critic
Literary Editor
Poet
Screenwriter
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Wine
Women

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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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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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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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There is something indecent in words .
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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