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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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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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