Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“all is the same time has gone by some day you come some day you'll die someone has died long time ago.” — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is… — 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
We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but… — 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
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
