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Quote by Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. O

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

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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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Cesare Pavese
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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

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alone
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Cesare Pavese
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