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But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
— Cesare Pavese
You are like a cloudGlimpsed between the branches. In your eyes there shines
The strangeness of a sky that isn't yours. — Cesare Pavese
The only joy in the world is to begin.
— Cesare Pavese
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
— Cesare Pavese
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
— Cesare Pavese
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.
— Cesare Pavese
It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone ...
— Cesare Pavese
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
— Cesare Pavese
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
— Cesare Pavese
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
— Cesare Pavese
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
— Cesare Pavese
Don't mix wine and women.
— Cesare Pavese
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
— Cesare Pavese
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
— Cesare Pavese
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
— Cesare Pavese
We obtain things when we no longer want them.
— Cesare Pavese
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
— Cesare Pavese
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
— Cesare Pavese
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
— Cesare Pavese
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
— Cesare Pavese
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
— Cesare Pavese
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
— Cesare Pavese
The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
— Cesare Pavese
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
— Cesare Pavese
Even something harsh and difficult is a comfort if we choose it ourselves. If it is imposed on us by others, it is agony.
— Cesare Pavese
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
— Cesare Pavese
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
— Cesare Pavese
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
— Cesare Pavese
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
— Cesare Pavese
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
— Cesare Pavese
There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children .
— Cesare Pavese
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
— Cesare Pavese
Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?
— Cesare Pavese
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
— Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
— Cesare Pavese
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
— Cesare Pavese
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
— Cesare Pavese
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
— Cesare Pavese
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
— Cesare Pavese
Love is the cheapest of religions.
— Cesare Pavese
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
— Cesare Pavese
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
— Cesare Pavese
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
— Cesare Pavese
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
— Cesare Pavese
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
— Cesare Pavese
Love is desire for knowledge.
— Cesare Pavese
A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
— Cesare Pavese
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
— Cesare Pavese
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
— Cesare Pavese
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
— Cesare Pavese
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
— Cesare Pavese
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
— Cesare Pavese
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
— Cesare Pavese
There is something indecent in words .
— Cesare Pavese
We never remember days, only moments.
— Cesare Pavese
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
— Cesare Pavese
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
— Cesare Pavese
You dont remember days, you remember moments
— Cesare Pavese
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
— Cesare Pavese
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
— Cesare Pavese
Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
— Cesare Pavese
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
— Cesare Pavese
We don't remember days,we remember moments.
— Cesare Pavese
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
— Cesare Pavese
All is the sametime has gone by
some day you come
some day you'll die
someone has died
long time ago. — Cesare Pavese
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
— Cesare Pavese
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
— Cesare Pavese
The cadence of suffering has begun.
— Cesare Pavese
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
— Cesare Pavese
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
— Cesare Pavese
The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
— Cesare Pavese
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
— Cesare Pavese
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
— Cesare Pavese
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
— Cesare Pavese
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
— Cesare Pavese
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
— Cesare Pavese
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
— Cesare Pavese
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
— Cesare Pavese
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
— Cesare Pavese
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
— Cesare Pavese
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
— Cesare Pavese
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
— Cesare Pavese
