I don't think I was the only one who was moved by Cesare Pavase's Diaries on This Recording a few days ago. Here are some of my favorite entries:
Bachelors regard matrimony more seriously than married people do
It is a certain sign of love to want to know, to relive, the childhood of the other.
The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Can it be true that you fall in love only with women who are very popular (the ballerina, Gognin) and that what pleases you about them is that they are desired by everyone, that you suffer because you are not the only one to possess them? The really clever thing, in affairs of this sort, is not to win a woman already desired by everyone, but to discover her while she is still unknown. (Cinderella.)
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
The cure for sentimentalism is to become, not cynical, but serious-minded.
As for love affairs, we can only tolerate our own.
