Cesare Pavese
Poet, Novelist
"The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it."
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Gauges
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Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person."
John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately."
Daniel Gilbert
Businessman
"Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to the supermarket on an empty stomach, you'll buy too much, and if you shop after a big meal, you'll buy too little."
Ayn Rand
Philosopher, Novelist
"Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity."
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"Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream."
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"Frenzied activity is no gauge of spirituality"
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