The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. – Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. – Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – Cesare Pavese
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
No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. – Cesare Pavese
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye