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What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

Cesare Pavese

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Cesare Pavese
Age: 41 †
Born: 1908
Born: September 9
Died: 1950
Died: August 27
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Journalist
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Literary Critic
Literary Editor
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Screenwriter
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Silence
Suffering
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The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
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