“Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?”

—  Cesare Pavese

Source: The devil in the hills (1949), Chapter 5, p. 306

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

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