"Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly.……" — Cesare Pavese
"Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long."
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66 Quotes by Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese has 66 quotes on this site.
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Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your…
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At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it,…
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting…
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Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial…
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever…
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a…
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always,…
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You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone,…
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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