26 Quotations by Cesare Pavese
- 1. A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, a ...
- 2. A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morro ...
- 3. All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
- 4. At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave y ...
- 5. Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.
- 6. Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
- 7. If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacu ...
- 8. It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and ...
- 9. Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
- 10. Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know ...
- 11. Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals yo ...
- 12. Love is the cheapest of religions.
- 13. No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
- 14. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in lo ...
- 15. One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love -- any love -- reveals us in our nak ...
- 16. Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
- 17. Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest -- thought, action -- is just ...
- 18. Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, ...
- 19. The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
- 20. The only joy in the world is to begin.
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