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There is something indecent in words .

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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