Quote

Don't mix wine and women.

Cesare Pavese

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Wine
Women

More quotes by Cesare Pavese

Image
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
Image
The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.
Cesare Pavese
Image
When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
Cesare Pavese
Image
We commit two wrongs when we fail to right a wrong.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
Cesare Pavese
Image
We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
Cesare Pavese
Image
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
Cesare Pavese
Image
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
Cesare Pavese
Image
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese
Image
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese
Image
When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
Cesare Pavese
Image
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
Image
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
Cesare Pavese
Image
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
Cesare Pavese
Image
We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
Cesare Pavese
Image
You don't remember days, you remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
Image
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
Image
A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
Cesare Pavese