The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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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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The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Love is desire for knowledge.
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Don’t mix wine and women.
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It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
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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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