What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence. - Cesare Pavese

Even then he had those piercing cat's eyes of his and when he had said something, finished up by saying: "If I'm wrong, put me right." And so I began to understand that you didn't speak for the sake of speaking, to say that you had done this or that, what you had eaten or drunk, but to work out an idea, to find out what makes the world go round.

There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.