natalìa

“Vuole credere lei che sarei orgoglioso e felice di possedere un amico tra gli uomini? Ma fino ad ora ho avuto amici solo tra demoni, farfarelli, mostri oscuri e fantasmi afasiaci, vale a dire: tra letterati.”
― Thomas Mann, Tonio Kröger

“This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from "I" to "we". If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we". ”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Ti ride negli occhi la stranezza di un cielo che non è il tuo.”
― Cesare Pavese, Lavorare stanca

“My dear Natalya Petrovna, there’s funny and funny.”
― Ivan Turgenev, A Month in the Country