“It wasn't a country where a man could settle down and rest his head and say to the others, "Here I am for good or ill. For good or ill let me leave in peace."”

—  Cesare Pavese

This was what was frightening.
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter III, p. 22

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

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