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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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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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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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Don't mix wine and women.
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