Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more?… — 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
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
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if… — 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
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi. (Death will come and it will have your eyes.) — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
