Meandering in the stacks . . .

Today is the birthday of Cesare Pavese (September 9, 1908 – August 27, 1950), poet, novelist, literary critic and translator.

"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
- Cesare Pavese

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
- Cesare Pavese

"A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be."
- Cesare Pavese

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
- Cesare Pavese

"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
- Cesare Pavese

"We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."
- Cesare Pavese

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