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Cesare Pavese on Anniversary

1908–1950 Italy

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10 quotes

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

This Business of Living (1935)

No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.

This Business of Living (1935)

We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.

This Business of Living (1935)

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

This Business of Living (1935)

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

This Business of Living (1935)

Love is the cheapest of religions.

This Business of Living (1935)

This much is certain: you can have anything in life except a wife to call you "her man." And till now all your life was based on that hope.

This Business of Living (1935)

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

This Business of Living (1935)

A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.

This Business of Living (1935)

Love is desire for knowledge.

This Business of Living (1935)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cesare Pavese (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.