-
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
Cesare Pavese -
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
Cesare Pavese
-
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare Pavese -
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.
Cesare Pavese -
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
Cesare Pavese -
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.
Cesare Pavese -
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
Cesare Pavese -
The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese
-
You dont remember days, you remember moments
Cesare Pavese -
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
Cesare Pavese -
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.
Cesare Pavese -
There is only one pleasure - that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
Cesare Pavese -
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God .
Cesare Pavese -
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.
Cesare Pavese
-
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
Cesare Pavese -
Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
Cesare Pavese -
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
Cesare Pavese -
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
Cesare Pavese -
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
Cesare Pavese -
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
Cesare Pavese
-
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
Cesare Pavese -
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese -
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
Cesare Pavese -
It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
Cesare Pavese