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
writing effort pages
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
real age affliction
The real affliction of old age is remorse.
pain men feelings
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
perfect behaviour indifference
Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
men intelligent fool
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
remember moments
You dont remember days, you remember moments
suicide ambition committed
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
women desire
What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
life happiness success
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
hands giving political
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
loneliness break-out problem
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
brother love-you wish
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
men thinking always-trying
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.