All Cesare Pavese Quotes
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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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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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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