Cesare Pavese (9 September 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator.
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? Use this quote
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Use this quote
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Use this quote
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Use this quote
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Use this quote