Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“3660. Nothing costs so much as what is given us.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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