Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESEWe can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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