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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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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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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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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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