Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman. - Cesare Pavese

That you need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.