Cesare Pavese, Il Mestiere Di Vivere: Diario 1935-1950 Quotes
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.