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“Perché la vita, per tutte le sfacciate assurdità, piccole e grandi, di cui beatamente è piena, ha l'inestimabile privilegio di poter fare a meno di quella stupidissima verosimiglianza, a cui l'arte crede suo dovere obbedire. Le assurdità della vita non hanno bisogno di parer verosimili, perché sono vere. All'opposto di quelle dell'arte che, per parer vere, hanno bisogno d'esseri verosimili. E allora, verosimili, non sono più assurdità. Un caso della vita può essere assurdo; un'opera d'arte, se è opera d'arte, no. Ne segue che tacciare d'assurdità e d'inverosimiglianza, in nome della vita, un'opera d'arte è balordaggine. In nome dell'arte, sì; in nome della vita, no.”
― Il fu Mattia Pascal
― Il fu Mattia Pascal
“First and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered By self is, of all things. the most shameful and objectionable.”
― The Republic
― The Republic
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
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“I am drowning, my dear, in seas of fire.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
― The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings
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