The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
CESARE PAVESEThe only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
CESARE PAVESEAll sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
CESARE PAVESESuicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
CESARE PAVESEIt’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESEThe art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
CESARE PAVESELife is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
CESARE PAVESELove is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEBut the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
CESARE PAVESEOne 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 PAVESEWe care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
CESARE PAVESEBut all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
CESARE PAVESEThe only joy in the world is to begin.
CESARE PAVESEDon’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESETo know the world, one must construct it.
CESARE PAVESELife without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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