black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Cesare Pavese

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

Art Believe Live Lying
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
CESARE PAVESE

Character Nature Suicide
To know the world, one must construct it.
CESARE PAVESE

Construction World
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
CESARE PAVESE

Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESE

Artist Monk State
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be “lifelong”? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
CESARE PAVESE

Love Man Operation Relationship True Wake Up
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
CESARE PAVESE

Friendship Grief Herself Loss Stupidity Yourself
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.
CESARE PAVESE

Action Destiny Fate Himself Reaction
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
CESARE PAVESE

Alive Happiness Misery
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.
CESARE PAVESE

Insecurity Man Ready Sacrifice Sick Yourself
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.
CESARE PAVESE

Enjoyment Life Mad Ourselves People Suffering True
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
CESARE PAVESE

Money Oneself
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
CESARE PAVESE

Activity Time
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
CESARE PAVESE

Feeling Heart Ourselves Word
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.
CESARE PAVESE

Born Love Thinking World
Don’t mix wine and women.
CESARE PAVESE

One Liner Wine Woman

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cesare Pavese Quotes