Zitat des Tages von Cesare Pavese:
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
One 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.
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
A 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.
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Love is the cheapest of religions.
Living 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.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.