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Cesare Pavese
Italy
9 Sep 1908 // 27 Aug 1950
Writer / Poet
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On Strength:
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
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On Hate:
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body
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On Help:
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue
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On Contestation:
Contraries are cured by contraries
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On Solitude:
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be
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On Memory:
We do not remember days, we remember moments
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On Memory:
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten
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On Start:
The only joy in the world is to begin
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On Search:
One must look for one thing only, to find many
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On Life:
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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