Cesare Pavese Quotes (1908-1950)

Writer, Poet, Novelist

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Cesare Pavese (9 September, 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic and translator.

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“Love is desire for knowledge.”
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“Don't mix wine and women, Doro.”
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“Love is the cheapest of religions.”
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“There is something indecent in words.”
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“The real affliction of old age is remorse.”
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“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”
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“Not believing in anything is also a religion.”
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“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
“We obtain things when we no longer want them.”
“Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.”
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“It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...”
“Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.”
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“The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”
“Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.”
“All our "most sacred affections" are merely prosaic habit.”
“Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.”
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“We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.”
“Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.”
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“You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.”
“If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.”
“Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.”
“What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.”
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“When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.”
“I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.”
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“There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.”
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Cesare Pavese on Destiny 5 quotes

“When one has made a mistake, one says. "Another time I shall know what to do," when one should say is: "I already know what I shall really do another time."”
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Cesare Pavese on Suicide 4 quotes

“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”
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Cesare Pavese on Suffering 3 quotes

“But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.”
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Cesare Pavese on Loneliness 2 quotes

“It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.”
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Cesare Pavese on Life 2 quotes

“You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.”
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Cesare Pavese on Freedom 2 quotes

“We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.”
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Cesare Pavese on Companionship 2 quotes

“How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?”
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Cesare Pavese on Revenge 2 quotes

“To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.”
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Cesare Pavese on Writing 2 quotes

“Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.”
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Cesare Pavese on Marriage 2 quotes

“No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.”
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Cesare Pavese on Speech 2 quotes

“The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.”
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Cesare Pavese on Hometown 2 quotes

“That you need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.”
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About Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese (9 September, 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic and translator.