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
art strong sex
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).
son generations artistic
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
art opposites two
We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
artist monk states
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
life art lying
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
art pain suffering
There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.
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.
lies life memories richness
The richness of life lies in the memories we have forgotten.
lies lies-and-lying life memories remember richness
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
against attacks cunning deceive defense enjoy foresee halt involving literature normal says secret steal watching
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: ''You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.''
men humiliation mourn
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
people dry should
Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
believe men suffering
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
people heaven way
Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.