240 Quotes by Cesare Pavese

Leggendo non cerchiamo idee nuove, ma pensieri già da noi pensati, che acquistano sulla pagina un suggello di conferma. Ci colpiscono degli altri le parole che risuonano in una zona già nostra – che già viviamo – e facendola vibrare ci permettono di cogliere nuovi spunti dentro di noi.

You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the other person using it to assert his strength.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. Perhaps this is why we always love madly someone who treats us with indifference.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Un paese ci vuole, non fosse per il gusto di andarsene via. Un paese vuol dire non essere soli, sapere che nella gente, nelle piante, nella terra c'è qualcosa di tuo, che anche quando non ci sei, resta ad aspettarti.

la literatura es la defensa frente a las ofensas de la vida

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten