Cesare Pavese
» At great periods you have always felt, deep within you, the temptation to commit suicide. You gave yourself to it, breached your own defenses. You were a child. The idea of suicide was a protest against life; by dying, you would escape this longing for death.
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Cesare Pavese: 1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator

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