Cesare Pavese Quotes
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
Kevin Costner
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Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
Soren Kierkegaard
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If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.
Arthur Plotnik
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Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.
Eugene Jarecki
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Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.
William Shakespeare
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Thought is no longer theoretical. As soon as it functions it offends or reconciles, attracts or repels, breaks, dissociates, unites or reunites; it cannot help but liberate or enslave. Even before prescribing, suggesting a future, saying what must be done, even before exhorting or merely sounding an alarm, thought, at the level of its existence, in its very dawning, is in itself an action-a perilous act.
Michel Foucault
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O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.
William Butler Yeats
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese
