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
time men brutal
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
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.
eye
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.)
sweet morning stars
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.
love inspirational life
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
ideas echoes pages
When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves
perfect indifference behavior
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.
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?
power free-will single-relationship
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
love marriage money
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
love life love-is
Love is the cheapest of religions.
artist monk states
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
desire want tests
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
lying ocean sea
What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.