How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night? - Cesare Pavese

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.