One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Cesare PaveseWhen we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
Cesare PaveseThe closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare PaveseThe cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
Cesare Pavese