The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows. Cesare Pavese More Quotes by Cesare Pavese More Quotes From Cesare Pavese I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding. Cesare Pavese understanding blood world There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him. Cesare Pavese forgiveness forgiving stupidity Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it. Cesare Pavese plenty despise We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts. Cesare Pavese good-deeds deeds thinking Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. Cesare Pavese hate body hatred What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it. Cesare Pavese ocean sea lying Don't mix wine and women. Cesare Pavese women-and-wine wine It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative? Cesare Pavese imagination believe children We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God. Cesare Pavese care littles people A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience. Cesare Pavese what-matters suffering world 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. Cesare Pavese single loneliness boys It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny . Cesare Pavese happened fate destiny Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese free-will single-relationship power When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. Cesare Pavese fire writing ideas Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state. Cesare Pavese monk states artist When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her. Cesare Pavese another-man men For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese lafayette doe history Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven. Cesare Pavese heaven people way When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves Cesare Pavese echoes pages ideas 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 humiliation mourn men
