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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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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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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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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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There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
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We obtain things when we no longer want them.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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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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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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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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