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Cesare Pavese
“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.”
Cesare Pavese

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
“The wealth of many centuries had been transmitted into ornament, luxury, pleasure; no more; the abolition of feudal rights had swept away duties as well as privileges; wealth, like an old wine, had let the dregs of greed, even of care and prudence, fall to the bottom of the barrel, leaving only verve and color.”
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
“Death, oh yes, it existed of course, but it was something that happened to others. The thought occurred to Don Fabrizio that it was ignorance of this supreme consolation that made the young feel sorrows much more sharply than the old; the latter are nearer the safety exit.”
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard

Arno Schmidt
“When an important writer recommends a work to you -- whether by openly naming the title; or by shy=covert use of it (which perhaps is the greater praise) then go right ahead and follow his [sic!, etc] momentous hint ! A man with expertise and taste has done trusty spade-work for you : {pre=reading} and winnowing 1000 volumes of antiquated chaff for you. Not to make grateful use of such a hint would mean my thoughtless=arrogant shoving aside all the precious, irreplaceable hours that a venerable predecessor spent reading for me.”
Arno Schmidt, Radio Dialogs II

Antal Szerb
“I really dislike the sort of people who aren't like other people. It's true other people are so boring. But so are the ones who aren't like them.”
Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight

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