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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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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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.
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The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.
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I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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But are we to accept a form of government which we do not entirely approve of, merely in hopes that it will be administered well? Does not every man know, that nothing is more liable to be abused than power. Power, without a check, in any hands, is tyranny;
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We need the best and the brightest to go into public service.
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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.
