Cesare Pavese

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

No woman marries for money, they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in love with him first.

One must look for one thing only to find many.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Living is like working out a long addition sum and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in this world.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

We do not remember days we remember moments.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.