Cesare Pavese

"Acting is not being. It is the perfect art of fake sincerity."

"The only way to predict the future is to create it."

"A powerful man is likened to water."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"Maturity begins when one realizes that no one fixes it all."

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to concealing it."

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

"Poetry must have reality as its foundation."

"The friendship that can end never really began."

"Beauty is the only excuse for being."

"The true journey of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."

"Freedom is what you do with what has been done to you."

"The problem of others does not interest me."

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."

"We grow most when we serve others."

"Patience is the acceptance of the truth of the present moment."

"The greatest betrayal is when we betray ourselves."

"Time is the only thing we can give, and the only thing worth giving."

"To be a woman is to have obligations that destroy us."

"The most interesting people are interesting in their failures."

"We are truly grateful when we remember."

"Art is when you dream it."

"Ideology is the will to power disguised as love of truth."

"A man is made by his challenges."

"The most fertile source of insight is wonder."

"Good sense is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing when to say it."

"We must have the courage to live what we are."

"There is no future unless we dream one."