Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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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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It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
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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 real affliction of old age is remorse.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Don't mix wine and women.
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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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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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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
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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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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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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.
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.