Cesare Pavese

"We do not remember days, we remember moments."

"The only joy in the world is to begin."

"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's troubles does not make it better."

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

"Travel is useful for gaining experience, but it is dangerous for losing illusions."

"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world."

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been."

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

"We will always have time enough if we will but use it well."

"The art of living is the art of dying well."

"You will never know everything about anything, especially something you love."

"Suffering is not ennobling, pain is not a doorway to truth, and sadness is not a spiritual state."

"Writing is a disease, but it is a wonderful disease."

"No woman marries for love alone."

"One moment of happiness is worth a thousand years of sadness."

"The real discovery is not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes."

"When you stop hoping, you stop living."

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to know another one must not only give oneself but become oneself less."

"The devil is not in evil; he is in banality."

"Fidelity to experience is not a small thing."

"We must change, and we must keep changing always."

"Teaching is easy. Learning is very difficult."

"The only way to understand is to understand everything."

"Wine is bottled poetry."

"Death will come. Therefore, the important thing is how you live."

"Work is salvation."

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another."

"Every man is a poet when he is in love."

"No one ever lack a reason for living."

"To know the world, one must construct it."