Will power is only the tensile strength of ones own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. – 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
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