The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego i… - Cesare Pavese

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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.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese (9 September, 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic and translator.

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