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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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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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Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
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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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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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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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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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I was happy enough I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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