Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always. Cesare Pavese More Quotes by Cesare Pavese More Quotes From Cesare Pavese Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. Cesare Pavese mistakeeducationlife The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. Cesare Pavese interestacceptancepersonality Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny. Cesare Pavese messdestinyway I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it. Cesare Pavese funrememberboys 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 partydarklying The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark. Cesare Pavese lastsdeedsrevenge There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man. Cesare Pavese generous-manrevengemen Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. Cesare Pavese nakedsighttwo In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex). Cesare Pavese strongsexart A corpse is what's left after waking too often. Cesare Pavese corpseswakingleft There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. Cesare Pavese miseryalivelife It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point. Cesare Pavese whole-lifewholehappens There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life. Cesare Pavese boredmercy You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering . Cesare Pavese sufferingmenbelieve From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette Cesare Pavese cigarettedestinywant Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. Cesare Pavese prisonreality To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it. Cesare Pavese injusticedonecomfort A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end. Cesare Pavese creationknowingdream The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. Cesare Pavese griefheartnight Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time. Cesare Pavese memoriesmeanfirsts
