“Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?”

—  Cesare Pavese

Source: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 18, p. 354

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

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