Cesare Pavese Quotes

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar co...

The only joy in the world is to begin.

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the human interest the old personali...

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

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

We do not remember days we remember moments.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgivenes...

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo...

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, a...

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers mor...

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.

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

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

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

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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

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

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the pla...

And then we cowardswho loved the whisperingevening, the houses,the paths by the river,the dirty red ...

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

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...

The cadence of suffering has begun.

The search for a new personality is futile what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can...

Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slov...

No woman marries for money they are all clever enough before marrying a millionaire to fall in lo...