The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
CESARE PAVESELove is the cheapest of religions.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man – the one he used to be.
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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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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
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When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
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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.
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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.
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But here’s the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we’d lose them.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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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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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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We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
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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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