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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

“Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.”

People Knows May Moments Common Class Know How Middle Crisis Former Latter Middle Class Behaviour Formal Brutes Upper Class Fastidious Uncouth

Author:Cesare Pavese

“You don't remember days, you remember moments.”

Moments Remember

Author:Cesare Pavese

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”

Source: This Business of Living

“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?”

World Believe Children Moments Imagination Imaginative Recollection Rare Moments

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.”

Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

“We never remember days, only moments.”

Moments Remember Time

Author:Cesare Pavese

“The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.”

World Moments Joy Alive

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

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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