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Own Quotes by Cesare Pavese
- At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You…
- To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their…
- For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
- Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
- When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page.…
- Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
- He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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