Author: Cesare Pavese

Quotes

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

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

- Cesare Pavese

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

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

- Cesare Pavese

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

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

- Cesare Pavese

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

- Cesare Pavese

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

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

- 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.

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

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

- Cesare Pavese

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

- Cesare Pavese

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

- Cesare Pavese

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