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The starting point of history can always be shifted, such that one side is always instigating, the other always justified in response.
“We are stories, contained within the twenty complicated centimeters behind our eyes...”
― L'ordine del tempo
― L'ordine del tempo
“What an astonishment to breathe on this breathing planet. What a blessing to be Earth loving Earth.”
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
― The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
“I do not fear death. I fear suffering. And I fear old age, though less so now that I am witnessing the tranquil and pleasant old age of my father. I am afraid of frailty, and of the absence of love. But death does not alarm me. It did not scare me when I was young, and I thought at the time that this was because it was such a remote prospect. But now, at sixty, the fear has yet to arrive. I love life, but life is also struggle, suffering, pain. I think of death as akin to a well-earned rest.”
― L'ordine del tempo
― L'ordine del tempo
“Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“The fascist ideal is to mobilize everyone into a kind of national Gesamtkunstwerk: making the whole society into a theater.”
― On Women
― On Women
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