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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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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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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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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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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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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
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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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