Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESESuicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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