Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
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 man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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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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All our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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