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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A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
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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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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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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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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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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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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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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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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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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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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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All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.