Cesare Pavese Quotes

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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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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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

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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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