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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
Cesare Pavese
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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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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