If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight__hey are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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Cesare Pavese
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Disaffections: Complete Poems
Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
The Burning Brand: Diaries, 1935-1950
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The cadence of suffering has begun.
The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flo
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own__he place where we live__nd the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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.
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
The only joy in the world is to begin.