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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Cesare Pavese

Strength

Adversity

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Cesare Pavese

Tongue

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

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Cesare Pavese

Artists

State

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.