The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about life, end
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.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about man, companies, youth, world
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about ambition, sin, origin, common sense, sense
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about money, being, world
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about human imperfections
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about hate, body, spirit
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about life, sin
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about fasting, wish, light, contentment
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?CQuote by Cesare Pavese about children, recollection, imagination, faith, world, life
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about suffering, joy, pain, love, life
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.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about opinion, circumstances, mistake, rightness, contentment
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about woman, intelligence, fall, money, love
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love any love reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.CQuote by Cesare Pavese about love, vulnerability, woman