“We were at the age when a friend's conversation seems like oneself talking, when one shares a life in common the way I still think, bachelor though I am, some married couples are able to live.”

—  Cesare Pavese

Source: The Beach (1941), Chapter 2, p. 8

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

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