Cesare Pavese Quotes
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
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It's not so easy to forgive.
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It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by his commander in chief.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
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He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
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A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
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I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
