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Cesare Pavese [1908-1950] Italian

Rank: 101
Poet

Cesare Pavese was an Italian poet, novelist, literary critic and translator. He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.

Life, Strength, Age, Alone, Art, Good, Imagination, Money, Power, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
We do not remember days, we remember moments.	Life	101
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.	Life	102
Lessons are not given, they are taken.		103
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?	Imagination	104
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.	Art	105
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.	Travel	106
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.	Age	107
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.		108
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.		109
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.	Good	110
One must look for one thing only, to find many.		111
The only joy in the world is to begin.		112
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.		113
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.		114
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.	Strength	115
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.		116
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.		117
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.	Alone	118
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.		119
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.	Money	120
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.	Power, Strength	121
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.		122
Love is the cheapest of religions.		123
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.		124
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.		125

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