Cesare Pavese Quotes


Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.


Citations

Pavese, Cesare. The Moon and the Bonfires. Translated by R. W. Flint, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

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Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese
  • Born: September 9, 1908
  • Died: August 27, 1950
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Translator, Literary Critic, Essayist

Cesare Pavese was an Italian novelist, poet, short story writer, translator, literary critic, and essayist