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Giorgio Manganelli
“Quale di queste sorti sia la mia, io non capisco, e questo solo so, mentre lentamente procede la mia cavalcatura, che questa strada deve pure avere un termine, sia reggia, agguato, onorificenza, disastro.”
Giorgio Manganelli, La palude definitiva

Pär Lagerkvist
“Accontentarsi dell'incertezza, essere soddisfatti e felici… dell'incertezza… e sceglierla. Scegliere l'incertezza e il dubbio. Scegliere se stessi, così come si è. Osare essere come si è, senza muoversi alcun rimprovero. E scegliere il mare, il mare incostante, sconfinato, sconosciuto, e un viaggio senza fine e senza una meta precisa, senza meta…”
Pär Lagerkvist, Pilgrim at Sea

Aleksandar Tišma
“Non sento affatto il bisogno di scrivere storie di vincitori. Penso che ogni vittoria sia falsa. Vera è solo la sconfitta, perché la vita è in definitiva sempre una sconfitta, a meno che non sia, dal principio alla fine, un'illusione. E le illusioni non mi attirano.”
Aleksandar Tišma

Pier Paolo Pasolini
“First the mania for confession,
then the mania for clarity,
issued from you, dark, hypocritical
sentiment! Let them now
condemn my every passion, let them
drag me through the mud, call me twisted,
foul pervert, dilettante, perjurer;
you keep me apart, give me life’s assurance:
I burn at the stake, play the card of fire
and win: I win this small,
vast possession, my infinite,
miserable pity
which makes even righteous anger my friend.
And I can do this because I’ve endured you too long!”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Selected Poems

Mircea Eliade
“Es wäre entsetzlich, glauben zu müssen, daß in diesem ganzen so harmonishen, vollkommenen und sich selbst immer gleichbleibenden Kosmos nur die menschliche Existenz ein Speil des Zufalls und nur das Schicksal des Menschen völlig sinnlos sei.”
Mircea Eliade, Nuntă în cer

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