Cesare Pavese p m -151
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
The 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.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.