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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I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.
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This modeling thing, it's pretty easy, but actually it's also really tough.
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From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.
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If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
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Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors.
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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.
