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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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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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