Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Love is the cheapest of religions.

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.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.