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. Cesare Pavese killlovemisery Change image and share on social
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. Cesare Pavese closedropend Change image and share on social
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Cesare Pavese anestheticenjoymentlife Change image and share on social
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. Cesare Pavese childmakerealize Change image and share on social
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world. Cesare Pavese luxurypaystart Change image and share on social
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 badboycompany Change image and share on social
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. Cesare Pavese givehandready Change image and share on social
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 childimaginationimaginative share on social
Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce. Cesare Pavese dispositionincreaseounce Change image and share on social