You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
CESARE PAVESEEvery luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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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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Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
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We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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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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Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else’s body.
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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
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Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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