Not believing in anything is also a religion .
CESARE PAVESEIt 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.
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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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?
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A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
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Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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There is something indecent in words .
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The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else’s.
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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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