War and Treachery

"This war has produced perhaps the richest crop of treacheries that has every been known; which indicates a revolutionary climate- a climate, that is, where the initial state of things is gradually changing and the general standard of discernment is beginning to differ from the views of this or that group."
10th July, 1940


Destiny and Peace

"Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our destiny and we find peace."
8th August, 1940


Completion and Transcendence

"A man completes a work only when his qualities transcend that work."
14th August, 1940


Cesare Pavese
*The Burning Brand:
Diaries 1935-1950*
Walker and Company
New York, 1961