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Cesare Pavese, an Italian poet, was born on September 9, 1908, and died on August 27, 1950. His poetry is deeply influenced by the Italian literary tradition and blends modernist styles.

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Famous Cesare Pavese Quotes

“Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?”

Men Want Love Doe Pain Life Is Love Is Wake Up Operations Enjoyment Halfway Lifelong Anesthetics Life Is Pain

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe War Ends Seems Asks Ought One Day Rate Fallen

Author:Cesare Pavese

“In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.”

Knows Men Giving Doe Know How Sacrifice He Man Profession Enthusiasm Insincerity

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).”

Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

“One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.”

Children Doe Realizing Trouble

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“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.”

Love Doe Misery Oneself Vulnerability Nothingness Infatuation

Book:The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

“For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.”

Doe Might History Women In History Lafayette

Book:The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

Source: The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950

About the Author

Born: September 9, 1908
Died: August 27, 1950
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 193

Books & Sources

This Business of LivingRelated source material

Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. FlintRelated source material

Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950Related source material

This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950Related source material

La casa in collinaRelated source material

The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950Related source material

This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950Related source material

Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950Related source material

La bella estateRelated source material

La luna e i falòRelated source material

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