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
children doe realizing
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
art strong sex
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).
fate destiny ifs
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny .
people littles care
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God .
want
We obtain things when we no longer want them.
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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.
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
perfect behaviour indifference
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
pain men feelings
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
writing ideas fire
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
remember moments
You dont remember days, you remember moments
dream knowing creation
A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
lonely writing men
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.