Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESEA decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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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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