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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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To know the world, one must construct it
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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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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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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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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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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