There is something indecent in words .

- Cesare Pavese

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

- Cesare Pavese

We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.

- Cesare Pavese

Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heav…

- Cesare Pavese

We never remember days, only moments.

- Cesare Pavese

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

- Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

- Cesare Pavese

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

- Cesare Pavese

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

- Cesare Pavese