Cesare Pavese Quote

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defences. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.


This Business of Living: Diary 1935–1950 (1952)


At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defences. You...

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defences. You...

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defences. You...

At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defences. You...