The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering . — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
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? — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
But here's the worst part: the trick to life lies in hiding from those we hold most dear how much they mean to is;… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
“Meanwhile we arrived at our lane and the sight of the olive tree rubbed me the wrong way. I began to see that no… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.) — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share
