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“Chi per propria sventura sappia di non essere all’altezza del mignolo sinistro di Conrad ma voglia con onestà narrare, non ha che da guardare la propria nazione, in diretta o nella memoria. Troverà infiniti spunti per intrecci e vicende di romanzo e nella propria identità nazionale un terreno fertile di immagini, modi di dire e costumi che colano e svelano una visione del mondo. La faccenda è complicata, in quest’epoca. L’appartenenza nazionale è doppia o tripla o quadrupla, quando non arricchita o sostituita da un’appartenenza ideologica (come il comunismo) che con atto volontario l’uomo assume a tribù dello spirito. Molteplici sono le radici di ognuno di noi. (p. 992)”
― Scritti giornalistici
― Scritti giornalistici
“Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.”
― The New Jerusalem
― The New Jerusalem
“Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?
The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.
There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
― Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.
There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
― Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers
“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
― Martin Eden
― Martin Eden
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