“I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.”

—  Cesare Pavese

Source: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 1, p. 63

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