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Cesare Pavese

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


— Cesare Pavese


#envies #far #fast #fears #light

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


— Cesare Pavese


#believe #how #knowing #lies #living

The only joy in the world is to begin.


— Cesare Pavese


#joy #only #world

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.


— Cesare Pavese


#lies #life #memories #richness

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


#boy #company #completely #grown #grown man

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.


— Cesare Pavese


#bourgeois #monks #state

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


— Cesare Pavese


#absolutely free #every #feeling #free #life

Love is the cheapest of religions.


— Cesare Pavese


#love #love is #religions

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


— Cesare Pavese


#cannot #disposition #increase #only #ounce

One must look for one thing only, to find many.


— Cesare Pavese


#look #many #must #one thing #only






About Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese Quotes




Did you know about Cesare Pavese?

for the Italians his death has come to have a weight like that of Hart Crane for us a meaning that penetrates back into his own work and functions as a symbol in the literature of an age. As a young man of letters Pavese had a particular interest in English-language literature graduating from the University of Turin with a thesis on the poetry of Walt Whitman. Bitter struggles took place between Germans and partisans in this area.

He is widely considered among the major authors of the 20th century in his home country.

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