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
sacrifice men giving
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
mirrors sitting evening
I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
want
We obtain things when we no longer want them.
sacred affection habit
All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit.
thoughts-of-death repose
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
long silence suffering
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
sight two naked
Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
dream ends knows
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
men would-be furious
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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.
waking corpses left
A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
smoking smoke
Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
reality imagination humans
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.