Cesare Pavese Quotes
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
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I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.
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Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.
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The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it played out big-time as an adult. It scorned me the rest of my life - in a good way.
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We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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Too much rest is rust.
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The program for this evening is not new. You have seen This entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death; you might recall all of the rest - (did you have a good world when you died?) - enough to base a movie on?
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Generous, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.
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Say, what is the spell, when her fledgelings are cheeping, That lures the bird home to her nest? Or wakes the tired mother, whose infant is weeping, To cuddle and croon it to rest?
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Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.
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One essential of a free government is that it rest wholly on voluntary support. And one certain proof that a government is not free, is that it coerces more or less persons to support it, against their will.
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Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.
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Politicians lie.
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All art is subversive.
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I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
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There is only one pleasure - that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
