Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Now that I've seen what war is ... I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.
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Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
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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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Not believing in anything is also a religion.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
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Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
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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 do not remember days, we remember moments.
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.