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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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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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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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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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