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
world constructs knows
To know the world, one must construct it
avoiding
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
love life friendship
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
ivy innuendo
Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?
art lying believe
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
time remember moments
We never remember days, only moments.
women believe logic
Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
joy alive world
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
cry born dies
It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
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.
taken lessons genocide
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
dream travel sleep
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
inspirational happiness being-happy
The only joy in the world is to begin.
adversity hath met strength
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.