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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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Wine
Women

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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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There is something indecent in words .
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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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