A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
CESARE PAVESEA dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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 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 PAVESEWe do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
CESARE PAVESENot believing in anything is also a religion .
CESARE PAVESEWe commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
CESARE PAVESEDon’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESEPerfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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 PAVESEBecause, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESEIt’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
CESARE PAVESEThe face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
CESARE PAVESELife is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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 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.
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