“The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.” — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night? — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to… — 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 only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will… — 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… — 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… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into… — 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
At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. — 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
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity.… — 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
