The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
CESARE PAVESEHate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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It’s pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.
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What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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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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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.
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To know the world, one must construct it.
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
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Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
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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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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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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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