The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish y… - Cesare Pavese

Consider this point carefully: nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.

Things which cost nothing are those which cost the most. Why? Because they cost us the effort of understanding that they are free.