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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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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
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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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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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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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