“The courage to stand alone as if others didn't exist and think only of what you're doing. Not to get scared if people ignore you. You have to wait for years, have to die. Then after you're dead, if you're lucky, you become somebody.”

—  Cesare Pavese

Source: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 8, p. 105

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Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator 1908–1950

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