Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavesewas an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 September 1908
CountryItaly
Cesare Pavese quotes about
memories mean firsts
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time.
There is something indecent in words .
fate sick desire
The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
long silence suffering
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
waiting fruit branches
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
thoughts-of-death repose
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
sight two naked
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
sacrifice men giving
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.
appreciation regret war
War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
men weakness firsts
Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
mirrors sitting evening
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
wine women-and-wine
Don't mix wine and women.
women believe logic
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
sacred affection habit
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.