The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
Cesare PaveseOne does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
Cesare PaveseTraveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
Cesare PaveseThe only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Cesare PaveseSuffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.
Cesare Pavese