Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
CESARE PAVESEWriting is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
CESARE PAVESEIt had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
CESARE PAVESELiving 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 PAVESEYou cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
CESARE PAVESEThere is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
CESARE PAVESEWe commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESELove is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEHate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
CESARE PAVESEBecause, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESELove is desire for knowledge.
CESARE PAVESEI spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
CESARE PAVESEThe problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
CESARE PAVESEA man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
CESARE PAVESEWe care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
CESARE PAVESEThe act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
CESARE PAVESEDon’t mix wine and women.
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