“There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“Heaven is filled with only unimaginable pleasures and promises the absence of miseries.”
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