The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
Cesare PaveseLiterature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
Cesare PaveseRemember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
Cesare PaveseTraveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
Cesare Pavese