Cesare Pavese Thinking Quotations

The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.

We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.

No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.