"It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point."

-- Cesare Pavese

#Whole Life Quotes

“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”
“It was the custom when men received nominations to come to me for contributions, and I made them and considered them good paying investments for the company. In a Republican district I was a strong Republican; in a Democratic district I was Democratic, and in doubtful districts I was doubtful. In politics I was an Erie Railroad man all the time.”
“The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.”

Source : Blue Balliett (2012). “Chasing Vermeer”, p.103, Scholastic Inc.
“No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.”
“Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?”

Source : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120
“Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.”

Source : Acceptance speech for The Center Orange County's "Torch Bearer" Award, Santa Ana, California, June 5, 2010.
“The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.”
“When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.”

You may also like:

Alberto Moravia
Novelist
Carlo Levi
Painter
Eugenio Montale
Poet
Franz Kafka
Writer
Italo Calvino
Journalist
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer
Natalia Ginzburg
Author
Primo Levi
Chemist
Salvatore Quasimodo
Author