Quotes by Cesare Pavese

About Cesare Pavese:

Cesare Pavese is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten

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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

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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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

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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 whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

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Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma. Ci colpiscono degli altri le parole che risuonano in una zona già nostra – che già viviamo – e facendola vibrare ci permett...

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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

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It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameCesare Pavese
  • DescriptionItalian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
  • BornSeptember 9, 1908
  • DiedAugust 27, 1950
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionLinguist; Poet; Writer; Translator; Novelist; Literary Editor
  • AwardsStrega Prize