A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.
Cesare PaveseIdleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
Cesare PaveseWoman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.
Cesare PaveseDawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning.
Cesare Pavese