Cesare Pavese
"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."
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"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."
"كل ترفٍ له ثمنه، وكل شيء ترفٌ، بدءًا من وجودنا في هذا العالم."
Cesare Pavese
Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
"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."
"ليس المرء وحيدًا تمامًا في هذا العالم قط. فعلى"
Cesare Pavese
"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
"إن ثراء الحياة يكمن في الذكريات التي نسيناها."
Cesare Pavese
"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
"فن العيش هو فن معرفة كيف نصدق الأكاذيب."
Cesare Pavese
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
"إن أردتَ سفراً بعيداً وسريعاً، فخفّفْ زادك. انزعْ عنك كلَّ حسدٍ وغيرةٍ، وكلَّ عدمِ غفرانٍ وأنانيةٍ، وكلَّ خوفٍ."
Cesare Pavese
"Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce."
"إن قوة الإرادة ليست سوى متانة المرء الجوهرية، ولا يمكنه أن يزيدها قيد أنملة."
Cesare Pavese
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."
Cesare Pavese
"No woman marries for money they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in love with him first."
Cesare Pavese
"Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis the former know how to act the latter become uncouth brutes."
Cesare Pavese
"The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities."
Cesare Pavese
"The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities."
Cesare Pavese
"Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world."
Cesare Pavese
"If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves."
Cesare Pavese
"Traveling 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
"Literature 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 your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal"
Cesare Pavese
"No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first."
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