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"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."  — Leo Tolstoy

Cesare Pavese Quotes

Type: Poet   |    Date of Birth: 1908-09-09   |    Year of Death: 1950   |    Nationality: Italian
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.
Cesare Pavese

Contraries are cured by contraries.
Cesare Pavese

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Cesare Pavese

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Cesare Pavese

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
Cesare Pavese

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese

Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Cesare Pavese

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Cesare Pavese

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow."
Cesare Pavese

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.
Cesare Pavese

Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cesare Pavese

No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Cesare Pavese

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.
Cesare Pavese

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
Cesare Pavese


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