Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
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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.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
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Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale - you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath - the night is done. You are light and morning.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
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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.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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To know the world, one must construct it
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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.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
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You dont remember days, you remember moments
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.