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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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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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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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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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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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