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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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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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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 slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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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There is something indecent in words .
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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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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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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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