Quotes by : Cesare Pavese

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more?....

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.....

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place....

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort....

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your....

Whatever people may say the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly....

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette