Cesare Pavese Quotes

Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

Cesare Pavese

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• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

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• The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.

  

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• Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept.

  

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• If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

  

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• Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Human