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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?
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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 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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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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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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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