18 Quotes by Cesare Pavese
- We do not remember days, we remember moments.
- Love is the cheapest of religions.
- No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
- No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
- One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
- One must look for one thing only, to find many.
- One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
- The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
- 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.
- All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
- Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
- 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.
- Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
- Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
- Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
- He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
- If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
- Lessons are not given, they are taken.
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