Cesare Pavese

Writer

1908-09-09 – 1950-08-27

Cesare Pavese was an Italian writer, poet, and translator associated with postwar Italian literature. His novels and diaries explored isolation, memory, and modern life. He received the Strega Prize in 1950 shortly before his death.

Quotes by Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin.
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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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.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
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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.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
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A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
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For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
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Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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