Cesare Pavese Quotes
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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.
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, to look back to when we were children.
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.
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.
Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.
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.
Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
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.
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
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.
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten
The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.
The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
No woman marries for money they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in love with him first.