Cesare Pavese Believe Quotations

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

Not believing in anything is also a religion .

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.