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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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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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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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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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Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
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