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
stupid years interesting
But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.
what-matters suffering world
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
real reality incredibles
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
done comfort injustice
To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
fun might our-words
We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
blood understanding world
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
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.
believe men suffering
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
people heaven way
Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
men another-man
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
children looks fine
There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children .
past skills effort
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
revenge deeds lasts
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
morning night flames
I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.