240 Quotes by Cesare Pavese

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

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.

Don't mix wine and women.

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?

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.

One must look for one thing only, to find many.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.