Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first? Cesare Pavese More Quotes by Cesare Pavese More Quotes From Cesare Pavese 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 difficulty ambition suicide You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties. Cesare Pavese useless party yesterday 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 suicide way fall I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged. Cesare Pavese flames morning night The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's. Cesare Pavese ego reason-why thinking You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches. Cesare Pavese fruit branches waiting Love is desire for knowledge. Cesare Pavese desire-for-knowledge desire love-is Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism. Cesare Pavese sadism murderer suicide The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. Cesare Pavese break-out loneliness problem What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence. Cesare Pavese silence suffering long Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. Cesare Pavese thoughts-of-death repose We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest. 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 tests want desire Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live. Cesare Pavese home sleep giving How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night? Cesare Pavese whole-life risk night If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. Cesare Pavese vacuums scary feelings A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work. Cesare Pavese quality work men In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid. Cesare Pavese effort pages writing Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there? Cesare Pavese innuendo ivy 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 brother wish love-you
