Cesare Pavese Quotes
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But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.
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You dont remember days, you remember moments
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To know the world, one must construct it
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A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
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Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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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 desire for knowledge.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God .
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...
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The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.