Quote by Cesare Pavese
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese

Other quotes by 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

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Imagination
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No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. – Cesare Pavese

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Money
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. – Cesare Pavese

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Travel
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Depression
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The madness of depression is the antithesis of violence. It is a storm indeed, but a storm of murk. Soon evident are the slowed-down responses, near paralysis, psychic energy throttled back close to zero. Ultimately, the body is affected and feels sapped, drained. – William Styron

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Depression

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. – Eric Hoffer

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Depression

This is my depressed stance. When youre depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then youll start to feel better. If youre going to get any joy out of being depressed, youve got to stand like this. – Charles Monroe Schulz

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Depression

Depression is melancholy minus its charms — the animation, the fits. – Susan Sontag

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Depression

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – Samuel Johnson

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Courage

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain — then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? – Robert A. Heinlein

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Religion

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them. – Anacharsis

You have to be desirable. And thats why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, Why do women do this? Where do you go in your 50s in your career? – Kim Cattrall

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Age