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Don't mix wine and women.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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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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When a woman marries she belongs to another man and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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