Don’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESEI spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We’ll speak to the night as it’s whispering softly.
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities.
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.
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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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Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
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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.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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