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Love is desire for knowledge.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Journalist
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Literary Critic
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Screenwriter
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Desire

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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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 art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
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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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