All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. Cesare Pavese Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Cesare Pavese Read Quote
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better. Cesare Pavese Read Quote
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. Cesare Pavese Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese Read Quote
