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
believe
Not believing in anything is also a religion .
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.
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?
wine women-and-wine
Don't mix wine and women.
two failing commit
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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.
waiting fruit branches
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
party yesterday costumes
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.
writing effort pages
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
real age affliction
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
pain men feelings
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.