Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESEBecause, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESELove is the cheapest of religions.
CESARE PAVESEAll sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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 PAVESEYou don’t remember days, you remember moments.
CESARE PAVESEThings are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
CESARE PAVESEWe do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
CESARE PAVESEThe real affliction of old age is remorse.
CESARE PAVESEWhen you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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 PAVESEBut here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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 PAVESEHere’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
CESARE PAVESEThe search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
CESARE PAVESEThose philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
CESARE PAVESEWe must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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