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Leo Tolstoy
“He felt that he could not turn aside from himself the hatred of men, because that hatred did not come from his being bad (in that case he could have tried to be better), but from his being shamefully and repulsively unhappy. He knew that for this, for the very fact that his heart was torn with grief, they would be merciless to him. He felt that men would crush him as dogs strangle a torn dog yelping with pain. He knew that his sole means of security against people was to hide his wounds from them, and instinctively he tried to do this, but now he felt incapable of keeping up the unequal struggle.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Eric J. Hobsbawm
“Most young men and women (...) grow up in a sort of permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times they live in. This makes historians, whose business it is to remember what others forgot, more essential (...) than ever before.”
Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991

Ismail Kadare
“Poetry

Poetry,
How did you find your way to me?
My mother does not know Albanian well,
She writes letters like Aragon, without commas and periods,
My father roamed the seas in his youth,
But you have come,
Walking down the pavement of my quiet city of stone,
And knocked timidly at the door of my three-storey house,
At Number 16.

There are many things I have loved and hated in life,
For many a problem I have been an 'open city',
But anyway...
Like a young man returning home late at night,
Exhausted and broken by his nocturnal wanderings,
Here too am I, returning to you,
Worn out after another escapade.

And you,
Not holding my infidelity against me,
Stroke my hair tenderly,
My last stop,
Poetry.”
Ismail Kadare

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It’s all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

نزار قباني
“Io non posseggo nulla al mondo, tranne i tuoi occhi e la mia tristezza.”
Nizar Qabbani, Le mie poesie più belle (Poiesis)

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