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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

All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Affection Habit Scared
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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Believe Religion Wisdom
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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Break Communication Life Lonely Problem
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
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Blood Myself Place Thinking Understand World
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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Combination Happiness Writing Yourself
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Company Evening Mirror Myself
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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Finding Oneself Search
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Author Dreams End Yourself
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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Effort Experience Future Past Skills Technique World Yourself
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Bored Exception Life Mercy

Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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