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
life time party
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
life education mistake
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
love life love-is
Love is the cheapest of religions.
whole-life can-do happens
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
life happiness success
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
life art lying
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
life luxury pay-the-price
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
writing poetry making-love
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
mean home knowing
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
lying mean hiding
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is; if not, we'd lose them.
revenge men generous-man
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
writing talking two
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
thinking deeds good-deeds
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
destiny hard-times captains
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.