Cesare Pavese

"The greatest discovery is that a person can change his life by changing his thoughts."

"Every moment is precious when you realize time is all we have."

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."

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

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

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to love enamoured is to see with closed eyes."

"Certainly the effort to remain conscious all waking hours is something to which we are not adapted."

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

"The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is only the performance of useful work."

"Living is a hard task. The only solution is to deny it, to flee into dreams."

"What matters is that we live our own truth, not the truth others believe."

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

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

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

"We are dying from civilized conditions; we need the non-civilized."

"Death will come when it comes. Until then, we must live."

"The great thing about the written word is that it can be pondered and reconsidered."

"Each of us is an island. What saves us is throwing bridges."

"The truth of a life is determined not by facts but by the meaning we give them."

"Discipline is remembering what you want."

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

"We must change our idea of what luck is."

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

"Separation of powers is the most reliable guarantor of freedom."

"You need madness to create. You need sanity to communicate it."

"To be a man is to feel that while you are lying, your stone is in its proper place."

"The richness of life is the possibility of different interpretations."

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with others."

"Work is often the enemy of thought."