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Cesare Pavese
Italian
Poet
About the author
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Moments
Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Love
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Reason
#Suicide
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Love
#First
#Woman
#Money
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,
Italian
Poet
#Love
#Woman
#Misery
#Nothingness
#Vulnerability
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Trouble
#Being
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Art
#Living
#Lies
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#World
#Joy
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Life
#Lies
#Memories
#Richness
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,
Italian
Poet
#Right
#Will
#First
#Living
#Circumstances
#Mistake
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Life
#Years
#End
#Party
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Sense
#Ambition
#Inferiority
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Pain
#Enjoyment
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Will
#Strength
#Power
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,
Italian
Poet
#World
#Youth
#Man
#Company
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#State
#Artists
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#World
#Being
#Luxury
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Tongue
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,
Italian
Poet
#Life
#Children
#World
#Imagination
#Moments
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Strength
#Adversity
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Life
#Feeling
#Sin
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Light
#Travel
#Selfishness
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet
#Spirit
#Body
#Hate
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Cesare Pavese,
Italian
Poet