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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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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will.
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Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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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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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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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
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Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
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War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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