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Maybe it’s better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again. Cesare Pavese
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Maybe it’s better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again. Cesare Pavese
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new. Cesare Pavese
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. Cesare Pavese
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh. Cesare Pavese
Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there? Cesare Pavese
You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches. Cesare Pavese
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. 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 heaven. Cesare Pavese
I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged. Cesare Pavese
War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values. Cesare Pavese