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
reality prison
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will...
life happiness success
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
women desire
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
suicide ambition committed
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
men thinking always-trying
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.
desire want tests
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
thinking ego reason-why
The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
men would-be furious
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
dream ends knows
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
suicide sadism murderer
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
son generations artistic
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
despise plenty
Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
thinking deeds good-deeds
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
generations next problem
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.