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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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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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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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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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You don't remember days, you remember moments.
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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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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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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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The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
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