{
  "type": "quote",
  "site": {
    "name": "Leafy Quotes",
    "language": "en",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill/not-believing-in-anything",
  "json": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill/not-believing-in-anything.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill/not-believing-in-anything.md",
  "id": "a93aa51e-691f-4538-a4ec-01175f96052c",
  "slug": "not-believing-in-anything",
  "text": "Not believing in anything is also a religion.",
  "language": "en",
  "author": {
    "name": "Cesare Pavese",
    "slug": "cesare-pavese",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cesare-pavese"
  },
  "book": {
    "title": "The House on the Hill",
    "slug": "the-house-on-the-hill",
    "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill"
  },
  "character": null,
  "chapter": null,
  "chapter_parent": null,
  "page": 139,
  "verified": false,
  "original": null,
  "other_languages": [],
  "topics": [
    {
      "name": "faith",
      "slug": "faith",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith"
    },
    {
      "name": "atheism",
      "slug": "atheism",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/atheism"
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Wikiquote",
    "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese#The_House_on_the_Hill_(1949)",
    "license": {
      "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
    }
  },
  "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:58",
  "more_from_book": [
    {
      "id": "f9720212-b70b-43a2-b4fe-242aecaac082",
      "slug": "there-is-something",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill/there-is-something",
      "text": "There is something indecent in words.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 126,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "words",
          "slug": "words",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/words"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese#The_House_on_the_Hill_(1949)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "7c92f2c9-f18e-4d06-8816-2587611403c7",
      "slug": "i-dont-believe",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill/i-dont-believe",
      "text": "I don't believe it can end. Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: \"And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?\" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": null,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "war",
          "slug": "war",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese#The_House_on_the_Hill_(1949)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:58"
    },
    {
      "id": "5953084f-1ae2-408e-8e4b-a03524417bc5",
      "slug": "its-pointless-to-cry",
      "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cesare-pavese/the-house-on-the-hill/its-pointless-to-cry",
      "text": "It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...",
      "language": "en",
      "character": null,
      "chapter": null,
      "chapter_parent": null,
      "page": 105,
      "verified": false,
      "original": null,
      "other_languages": [],
      "topics": [
        {
          "name": "death",
          "slug": "death",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death"
        },
        {
          "name": "loneliness",
          "slug": "loneliness",
          "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness"
        }
      ],
      "source": {
        "name": "Wikiquote",
        "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cesare_Pavese#The_House_on_the_Hill_(1949)",
        "license": {
          "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
        }
      },
      "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:58"
    }
  ]
}