We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESEWe commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESELove is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEThe real affliction of old age is remorse.
CESARE PAVESEIdleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
CESARE PAVESEBecause, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESEAll our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
CESARE PAVESEWe want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
CESARE PAVESEOne stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
CESARE PAVESEBut the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
CESARE PAVESEThe cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
CESARE PAVESEWriting is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
CESARE PAVESEThe art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
CESARE PAVESETo know the world, one must construct it.
CESARE PAVESEWe can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
CESARE PAVESEI am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
CESARE PAVESEThings are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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