Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other’s sight, but in their own.
CESARE PAVESEDon’t mix wine and women.
More Cesare Pavese Quotes
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In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
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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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There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
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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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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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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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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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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
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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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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it any better.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
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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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Love is the cheapest of religions.
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You don’t remember days, you remember moments.
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Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
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We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
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We never remember days, only moments.
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But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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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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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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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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We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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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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