Cesare Pavese Quotes

You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

Cesare Pavese

• Pleasure
• Leaving
• Village
• Belongs
• Not Alone

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• You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Pleasure
  • Leaving
  • Village