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You don't remember days, you remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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There is something indecent in words .
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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 must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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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You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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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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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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