Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing. 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 mistake education life The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities. Cesare Pavese interest acceptance personality 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 mess destiny way 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 fun remember boys 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 party dark lying 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 lasts deeds revenge 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-man revenge men Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own. Cesare Pavese naked sight two 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 strong sex art A corpse is what's left after waking too often. Cesare Pavese corpses waking left There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery. Cesare Pavese misery alive life 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-life whole happens There is mercy for everyone, except those who are bored with life. Cesare Pavese bored mercy You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering . Cesare Pavese suffering men believe From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette Cesare Pavese cigarette destiny want Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. Cesare Pavese prison reality To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it. Cesare Pavese injustice done comfort A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end. Cesare Pavese creation knowing dream The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come. Cesare Pavese grief heart night Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it only then for the first time. Cesare Pavese memories mean firsts
