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

• Disposition
• Willpower
• Tensile Strength

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• If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality.

  

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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.

  

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• The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

  

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• I've never been in the position where that conversation is a serious conversation before the movie even comes out. On one side of it, that's so great because you've got such great potential. The other side of that is that there's a level of pressure. Now, that clearly means that there's an expectation level, from the studio side, potentially from the audience's side, and from our side.

  

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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
  • Disposition
  • Willpower
  • Tensile Strength