We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
CESARE PAVESEWe care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
CESARE PAVESEWoman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
CESARE PAVESEWhat we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
CESARE PAVESEHere’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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 PAVESEAll our “most sacred affections ” are merely prosaic habit.
CESARE PAVESEFor women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
CESARE PAVESEYou will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
CESARE PAVESEWill power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
CESARE PAVESEI thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else’s understanding.
CESARE PAVESEHate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
CESARE PAVESEThere is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
CESARE PAVESEDon’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESEWhy does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
CESARE PAVESEThe search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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