Cesare Pavese Quotes

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese

Travel, Wish, Light

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese

Life, Love, Pain

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese

Remember, Days, Moments

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Paid, Starting, Luxury

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare Pavese

Life, End, Party

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese

Good, Reason, Lacks

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese

Give, Rather, Hand

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese

Life, Lies, Memories

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese

Sense, Ambition, Sins

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
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Strength, Adversity, Knows

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese

Life, Feeling, Free

Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese

Art, Living, Knowing

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Cesare Pavese

Hate, Someone, Else

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese

Love, Money, Woman

One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese

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.
Cesare Pavese

Love, Woman, Misery

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.
Cesare Pavese

Alone, Youth, Used

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
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State, Artists, Bourgeois

Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cesare Pavese

Love, Religions, Cheapest

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Cesare Pavese

Child, Trouble, Telling

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese

Power, Strength, Single

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese

Life, True, Children

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.
Cesare Pavese

Long, Two, Find

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Poet

Born: September 9, 1908

Died: August 27, 1950

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