Luigi

“Nella misura in cui la sociologia e psicologia operative hanno contribuito ad alleviare condizioni sub-umane, esse fanno parte del progresso intellettuale e materiale. Ma esse testimoniano pure della razionalità ambivalente del progresso, che soddisfa nel mentre esercita il suo potere repressivo, e reprime nel mentre soddisfa.”
― Herbert Marcuse

“If only I had met Molly sooner, when it was still possible to choose one road rather than another! Before that bitch Musyne and that little turd Lola crimped my enthusiasm! But it was too late to start being young again. I didn't believe in it any more! We grow old so quickly and, what's more, irremediably. You can tell by the way you start loving your misery in spite of yourself. Nature is stronger than we are, no two ways about it. She tries us in one particular mould, and we're never able to throw it off. I had started out as the restless type. Little by little, without realizing it, you begin to take your role and fate seriously, and, before you know it, it's too late to change. You're a hundred per cent restless, and it's set that way for good.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Maybe that’s what we look for all our lives, the worst possible grief, to make us truly ourselves before we die.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“Perché io mi posso permettere quel lusso di essere abbandonato, anche se io abbandonato non lo sono mai, io sono soltanto solo per poter vivere in una solitudine popolata di pensieri, perché io sono un po' uno spaccone dell'infinito e dell'eternità e l'infinito e l'eternità forse hanno un debole per le persone come me.”
― Bohumil Hrabal