About Cesare Pavese: Cesare Pavese is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
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.
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.
A veces una mujer encuentra los restos de un barco hecho pedazos y decide hacer con ellos un hombre sano. En ocasiones lo consigue. Otras veces una mujer encuentra un hombre sano y decide hacerlo pedazos. Siempre lo consigue.
The cadence of suffering has begun.
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same our...
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things...
La sorpresa es el móvil de cada descubrimiento.
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
