# Cesare Pavese's most beautiful quotes

"Death will come and will have your eyes", the only joy is beginning and every sea has another shore: the most quoted lines of Cesare Pavese, almost all from his diary This Business of Living, with the date he wrote them.

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## Top 14

1. **The only joy in the world is beginning. It is good to live because living is beginning, always, at every moment.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), November 23, 1937.
2. **Writing poems is like making love: you will never know if your joy is shared.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), November 17, 1937.
3. **If it is true that we get used to pain, why do we suffer more and more as the years go by?** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), November 21, 1937.
4. **Death will come and will have your eyes.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Poem "Death will come and will have your eyes" (1950).
5. **Avenging a wrong is depriving yourself of the comfort of crying injustice.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), March 5, 1938.
6. **Give the loner some company and he will talk more than anyone.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), September 19, 1938.
7. **The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, measure it, sound it and go down into it.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — This Business of Living (diary), April 24, 1936.
8. **What world lies beyond this sea I do not know, but every sea has another shore, and I will get there.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), February 16, 1936.
9. **There is something sadder than growing old, and that is remaining a child.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), December 25, 1937.
10. **The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), January 5, 1938.
11. **The cruellest offence you can do a man is to deny that he is suffering.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), October 5, 1938.
12. **Idleness makes the hours slow and the years fast. Work makes the hours fast and the years slow.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), December 10, 1938.
13. **The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), May 15, 1939.
14. **Free things are the ones that cost the most. How? They cost the effort of understanding that they are free.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — This Business of Living (diary), January 21, 1940.

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