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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Willpower is concrete, not ethereal. When you do something, you demonstrate your willpower, and it becomes all the easier to have the same power of will the next time.
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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
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We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.
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I've been through the music industry and with the Internet the music industry is not what it used to be. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/jeff-gutt-quotes
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Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
