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We obtain things when we no longer want them.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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 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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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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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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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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A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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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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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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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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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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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