Cesare Pavese

"Education is the most powerful weapon."

"We are responsible for our choices."

"Success is meaningless without purpose."

"The soul speaks in images and metaphors."

"We are never too old to become what we might have been."

"Death teaches us how to live."

"Perseverance is the path to mastery."

"The greatest adventure is self-discovery."

"We must learn to live with uncertainty."

"Life is the greatest teacher."

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

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

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how."

"Drink something. The world looks better from behind a glass."

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

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."

"An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as he wants."

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

"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"Work gives form to life."

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"Being a writer means taking the side of the oppressed."

"Poetry is not a luxury, it is a vital necessity of our existence."

"A man may have strong convictions and still be wrong."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We are dying from civilisation and its discontents."

"Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself."