A woman, unless she is an idiot, sooner or later meets a piece of human wreckage and tries to rescue him. She sometimes succeeds. But a woman, unless she is an idiot, sooner or later finds a sane, healthy man and makes a wreck of him. She always succeeds.

— Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese Quotes

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

— Cesare Pavese

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But all years are stupid. It’s only when they’re over that they become interesting.

— Cesare Pavese

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s own pleasure is shared.

— Cesare Pavese

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

— Cesare Pavese

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

— Cesare Pavese

You’ve got to understand life, understand it when you’re young.

— Cesare Pavese

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

— Cesare Pavese

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

— Cesare Pavese

The cadence of suffering has begun.

— Cesare Pavese

You will be loved the day when you will be able to show your weakness without the other person using it to assert his strength.

— Cesare Pavese

Un paese ci vuole, non fosse che per il gusto di andarsene via.

— Cesare Pavese

She had wanted to behave like a fully grown woman and it had not come off.

— Cesare Pavese

Someone who has suffered is no longer the same.

— Cesare Pavese

If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.

— Cesare Pavese

Della mia infanzia non mi restava altro che l’estate. Le vie strette che sbucavano nei campi da ogni parte, di giorno e di sera, erano i cancelli della vita e del mondo.

— Cesare Pavese

Gli uomini che hanno una tempestosa vita interiore e non cercano sfogo nei discorsi o nella scrittura sono semplicemente uomini che non hanno una tempestosa vita interiore.

— Cesare Pavese

Esistono amori che non siano egoismo, che non vogliano ridurre l’uomo o la donna al proprio comodo?

— Cesare Pavese

In sostanza chiedevo un letargo, un anestetico, una certezza di essere ben nascosto. Non chiedevo la pace nel mondo, chiedevo la mia.

— Cesare Pavese

A woman, unless she is an idiot, sooner or later meets a piece of human wreckage and tries to rescue him. She sometimes succeeds. But a woman, unless she is an idiot, sooner or later finds a sane, healthy man and makes a wreck of him. She always succeeds.

— Cesare Pavese

A quei tempi era sempre festa.

— Cesare Pavese

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