Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
Cesare Pavese
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
Biographer
Journalist
Linguist
Literary Critic
Literary Editor
Poet
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Knowing
Lying
Living
Art
Believe
Life
Maturity
Lies
More quotes by Cesare Pavese
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese
Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.
Cesare Pavese
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
Cesare Pavese
From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette
Cesare Pavese
Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
Cesare Pavese
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
Cesare Pavese
One must look for one thing only, to find many.
Cesare Pavese
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
Cesare Pavese
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
Cesare Pavese
Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
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
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare Pavese
People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
Cesare Pavese
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.
Cesare Pavese
It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
Cesare Pavese
You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
Cesare Pavese
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
Cesare Pavese
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
Cesare Pavese
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
Cesare Pavese
