Cesare Pavese

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

“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 c...”

“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.”