It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her. - Cesare Pavese

Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

When one has made a mistake, one says. "Another time I shall know what to do," when one should say is: "I already know what I shall really do another time."

The most banal thing, discovered in ourselves, becomes intensely interesting. It is no longer an abstract banality, but an amazing co-ordination between reality and our own individuality.