Cesare Pavese Quotes

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

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• Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

  

  Cesare Pavese
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