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. ”