Cesare Pavese
View AuthorIf it's true that we get used to pain, how is it that over the years we suffer more and more?
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorThe only joy in the world is to begin. It is beautiful to live because to live is to begin, always, at every moment. When that sensation is missing, one would want to die.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorBut the great, the tremendous truth is this: suffering is useless.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorIt's true that by suffering you can learn many things. The bad thing is that having suffered, we have lost the strength to make use of them.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorThe whole problem of life is this: how to break one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorIt's called nostalgia, and it serves to remind us that, fortunately, we are also fragile.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorThe lesson is always the same: to dive in headfirst and know how to endure the punishment.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorEverything is in childhood, even that fascination that will be the future and that only then is felt as a wonderful shock.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorThe art of living is the art of knowing how to believe in lies.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorLove has the virtue of undressing not the two lovers facing each other, but each one in front of themselves.
Cesare Pavese
View AuthorYou will be loved on the day you can show your weakness without the other using it to assert their strength.
Anna Pavlova
View AuthorNo one can reach the top armed only with talent. God gives the talent; work transforms talent into genius.