Cesare Pavese Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese Famous Quotes & Sayings
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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.
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.
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children .
Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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.
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it is agony.
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.