Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese

One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese

Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese

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.
Cesare Pavese

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?
Cesare Pavese