240 Quotes by Cesare Pavese

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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.

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

She had wanted to behave like a fully grown woman and it had not come off.

And then we cowardswho loved the whisperingevening, the houses,the paths by the river,the dirty red lightsof those places, the sweetsoundless sorrow—we reached our hands outtoward the living chainin silence, but our heartstartled us with blood,and no more sweetness then,no more losing ourselveson the path by the river—no longer slaves, we knewwe were alone and alive.(Translated By Geoffrey Brock)

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.