All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
CESARE PAVESEAll sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
CESARE PAVESEA 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.
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 PAVESELessons are not given, they are taken.
CESARE PAVESELove is the cheapest of religions.
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 PAVESEThe closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
CESARE PAVESEWe do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
CESARE PAVESEA love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
CESARE PAVESEIdleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
CESARE PAVESEThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESENowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
CESARE PAVESELife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
CESARE PAVESEIt is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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 PAVESEWe never remember days, only moments.
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