Cesare Pavese Quotes
Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Pavese, Cesare. This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950. Translated by A. E. Murch, Peter Owen, 1961, p. 104.
During her adult life, she was the de facto ruler of China. Officials then did little or nothing to curb the attacks on the various foreigners and foreign power that occupied and exercised some control over parts of China. The Government itself could do little as it was too weak militarily with many key officials bribed by the foreign powers. The Boxers were a grass roots xenophobic movement devoted to getting the foreign powers out of China by violence.
Describing the bitter situation when Theodore Roosevelt contested William Howard Taft for the Republican 1912 presidential nomination:
Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist
