Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
There is something indecent in words . - Cesare Pavese
There is something indecent in words .
- Cesare Pavese
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. - Cesare Pavese
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest. - Cesare Pavese
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heav… - Cesare Pavese
Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heav…
We never remember days, only moments. - Cesare Pavese
We never remember days, only moments.
Lessons are not given, they are taken. - Cesare Pavese
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it. - Cesare Pavese
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. - Cesare Pavese
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. - Cesare Pavese
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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