You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
CESARE PAVESEThe search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
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A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
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Here’s the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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We want Realism’s wealth of experience and Symbolism’s depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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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.
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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one’s own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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