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We obtain things when we no longer want them.

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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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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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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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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