Cesare Pavese Quotes
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
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I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'
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The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.
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Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
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Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...
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I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.
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When someone isn't ready we must not try to force them out. People are being bullied and committing suicide because they're gay and it's horrible.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.
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Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.
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I can't tell you how many times I've had conversations with politicians who've done something morally reprehensible but not indictable, yet still think they should be able to stay in office. The office isn't a 'right.' It's a kind of loan.
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Remember trust is portable. Wherever you go, it follows you: good or bad.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
