Cesare Pavese Quotes
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having a belief system.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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You read [Bill ] Maher's book, and he didn't take Econ 101. All his arguments about gasoline, it's not that they're right or wrong - they're just not informed.
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Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
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Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
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I have learned that I must take a holiday at least once each year if I want to survive!
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
