Cesare Pavese

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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.
  • The Business of Living: Diaries 1935-50

• The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
  • The Burning Brand (1961)

• We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
  • "The Burning Brand"

• Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
  • The Faber Book of Aphorisms