The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. – Cesare Pavese
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. – 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
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. – 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
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. – Cesare Pavese