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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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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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To know the world, one must construct it
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The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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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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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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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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