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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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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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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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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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