1908 - 1950
Cesare Pavese was an Italian writer, poet, and translator, known for his influential works in 20th-century Italian literature. His novel "The Moon and the Bonfires" and his poetry collections have made him a significant figure in Italian literature, exploring themes of loneliness, alienation, and the human condition.
Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.