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.


Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint (ed. 1968)

Cesare Pavese Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...