black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
CESARE PAVESE

Avoid Freedom Live Ourselves
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
CESARE PAVESE

Commitment Failure Wrong
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
CESARE PAVESE

Enjoyment Life Love Pain
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
CESARE PAVESE

Art Believe Live Lying
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
CESARE PAVESE

Activity Time
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESE

Forget Life Memories Rich
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

Act Ambition Beyond Difficult Pass Suicide
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
CESARE PAVESE

Better Children Oneself Stop Trouble
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
CESARE PAVESE

Company Evening Mirror Myself
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
CESARE PAVESE

Clear Conscience Spirit Suffering Thinking World
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESE

Artist Monk State
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
CESARE PAVESE

Enough Fools Fortune Intelligence Man
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
CESARE PAVESE

Knowledge Lesson Wisdom
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

Day Feeling Forgiveness Himself Stupidity
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.
CESARE PAVESE

Enemy Generosity Man Revenge Yourself
There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life.
CESARE PAVESE

Bored Exception Life Mercy

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cesare Pavese Quotes