Cesare Pavese's most beautiful quotes
The top 3 according to 22 votes from people: The only joy in the world is beginning. It is good to live because living is beginning, always, at every moment. · Writing poems is like making love: you will never know if your joy is shared. · If it is true that we get used to pain, why do we suffer more and more as the years go by?. (Updated Jul 26, 2024.)
"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
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The only joy in the world is beginning. It is good to live because living is beginning, always, at every moment.
This Business of Living (diary), November 23, 1937.
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Writing poems is like making love: you will never know if your joy is shared.
This Business of Living (diary), November 17, 1937.
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If it is true that we get used to pain, why do we suffer more and more as the years go by?
This Business of Living (diary), November 21, 1937.
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Death will come and will have your eyes.
Poem "Death will come and will have your eyes" (1950).
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Avenging a wrong is depriving yourself of the comfort of crying injustice.
This Business of Living (diary), March 5, 1938.
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Give the loner some company and he will talk more than anyone.
This Business of Living (diary), September 19, 1938.
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, measure it, sound it and go down into it.
This Business of Living (diary), April 24, 1936.
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What world lies beyond this sea I do not know, but every sea has another shore, and I will get there.
This Business of Living (diary), February 16, 1936.
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There is something sadder than growing old, and that is remaining a child.
This Business of Living (diary), December 25, 1937.
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The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.
This Business of Living (diary), January 5, 1938.
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The cruellest offence you can do a man is to deny that he is suffering.
This Business of Living (diary), October 5, 1938.
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Idleness makes the hours slow and the years fast. Work makes the hours fast and the years slow.
This Business of Living (diary), December 10, 1938.
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The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
This Business of Living (diary), May 15, 1939.
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Free things are the ones that cost the most. How? They cost the effort of understanding that they are free.
This Business of Living (diary), January 21, 1940.
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