Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
CESARE PAVESEDeath is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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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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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 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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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
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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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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
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Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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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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Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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There is something indecent in words .
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