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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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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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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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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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