One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love — any love — reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. – Cesare Pavese
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. – Cesare Pavese
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. – Cesare Pavese
No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. – 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
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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. – Cesare Pavese
