We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God. - Cesare Pavese

Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.

Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.