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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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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
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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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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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