Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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There is only one pleasure - that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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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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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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But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.
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Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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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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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own - the place where we live - and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves