Italian - Poet | September 9, 1908 - August 27, 1950
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
LifeRememberMomentsDays
The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
LifeMemoriesForgottenLies
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
AmbitionSenseOriginInferiority
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
LightTravelWishYouFastTake
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.
LifeLovePainLove IsEnjoyment
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.
LoveWomanVulnerabilityMiseryUs
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.
MistakeLongYouFindLivingNever
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
MeTongueReadyHandGive MeGive
The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
ArtBelieveLivingKnowingLiesHow
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
LifeAgeEndPartyClosingYears
Lessons are not given, they are taken.
LessonsTakenGiven
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
GoodSuicideReasonEverGood Reason
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