Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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To know the world, one must construct it
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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.
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I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.
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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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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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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
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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.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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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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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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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
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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 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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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
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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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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.