Cesare Pavese

Italy
9 Sep 1908 // 27 Aug 1950
Writer / Poet

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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue
Contraries are cured by contraries
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
We do not remember days, we remember moments
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten
The only joy in the world is to begin
One must look for one thing only, to find many
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays