“ If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Cesare Pavese
“ No woman marries for money they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. Cesare Pavese
“ Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese
“ The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. Cesare Pavese
“ Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world. Cesare Pavese
“ Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to ac… Cesare Pavese
“ Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cu… Cesare Pavese
“ Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential thin… Cesare Pavese
“ The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities. Cesare Pavese
“ 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. Cesare Pavese
“ 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, t… Cesare Pavese
“ The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others. Cesare Pavese
“ Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference. Cesare Pavese
