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Writer, Poet, Novelist
About Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese (9 September, 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic and translator.
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“Don't mix wine and women, Doro.”
“The real affliction of old age is remorse.”
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
“We obtain things when we no longer want them.”
“Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.”
“It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...”
“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.”
“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.”
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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."”
Cesare Pavese on Suicide 4 quotes
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“It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.”
Cesare Pavese on Life 2 quotes
“You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.”
Cesare Pavese on Freedom 2 quotes
“We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.”
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?”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
About Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese (9 September, 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic and translator.