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
art lying believe
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
time remember moments
We never remember days, only moments.
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.
joy alive world
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
cry born dies
It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
fighting years mad
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
taken lessons genocide
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
dream travel sleep
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
inspirational happiness being-happy
The only joy in the world is to begin.
people dry should
Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.