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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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