"Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
― Cesare Pavese
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Power
― Cesare Pavese
More From 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?"
- "If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
- "He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
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- "Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter ‘found’ and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power."― Jerry Saltz
- "Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist."― Margaret Cho
- "We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don’t. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line… I don’t mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."― Jonathan Safran Foer