No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. – 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
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont