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
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 .
suicide children suicidal
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
children doe realizing
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
children believe imagination
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
men humiliation mourn
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
believe men suffering
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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.
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.
lying party dark
People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
home sleep giving
Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
night risk whole-life
How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
love-is desire desire-for-knowledge
Love is desire for knowledge.
real suffering purpose
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
girl stupid loss
It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.