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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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