Cesare Pavese Quotes
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.
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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
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Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
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Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.
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A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing.
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People lose in trade, and because our social safety nets here are so thin to begin with, the resistance is greater than it is in some of the other industrial countries.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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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.
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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.
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Are you not aware that there comes a midnight hour when everyone must unmask...
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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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The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.
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An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
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Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.
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Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
