Cesare Pavese
(9 Sep 1908 - 27 Aug 1950)
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Science Quotes by Cesare Pavese (12 quotes)
Chiodo scaccia chiodo, ma quattro chiodi fanno una croce.
One nail drives out another, but four nails make a cross.
One nail drives out another, but four nails make a cross.
— Cesare Pavese
Le lezioni non si dànno, si prendono.
Lessons are not given. They are taken.
Lessons are not given. They are taken.
— Cesare Pavese
Perché la vita è dolore e l’amore godimento è un anestetico
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
— Cesare Pavese
Se è vero che ci si abitua al dolore, come mai con l’andare degli anni si soffre sempre di píu?
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that, as the years go by, one always suffers more?
If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that, as the years go by, one always suffers more?
— Cesare Pavese
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
— 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
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one’s trouble does not make it better.
— Cesare Pavese
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
— Cesare Pavese
The girls are all giggling, then one girl suddenly remembers
the wild goat. Up there, on the hilltop, in the woods
and rocky ravines, the peasants saw him butting his head
against the trees, looking for the nannies. He’s gone wild,
and the reason why is this: if you don’t make an animal work,
if you keep him only for stud, he likes to hurt, he kills.
the wild goat. Up there, on the hilltop, in the woods
and rocky ravines, the peasants saw him butting his head
against the trees, looking for the nannies. He’s gone wild,
and the reason why is this: if you don’t make an animal work,
if you keep him only for stud, he likes to hurt, he kills.
— Cesare Pavese
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
— Cesare Pavese
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
— Cesare Pavese
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
— Cesare Pavese