Mattia Esultato

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Sono sicuro che non stia recitando per ingannare gli altri, mi chiedo però se il bugiardo che c’è in lui non lo stia ingannando. Quando Cristo entra nel suo cuore, quando la certezza di essere amato nonostante tutto gli fa scorrere sulle guance lacrime di gioia, non sarà caduto ancora una volta nella rete dell’Avversario?”
― Emmanuel Carrère, The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose history is ended, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, whose literature is unread, whose music is unheard, whose prayers are no longer uttered. Go ahead, destroy this race. Let us say that it is again 1915. There is war in the world. Destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them from their homes into the desert. Let them have neither bread nor water. Burn their houses and their churches. See if they will not live again. See if they will not laugh again. See if the race will not live again when two of them meet in a beer parlor, twenty years after, and laugh, and speak in their tongue. Go ahead, see if you can do anything about it. See if you can stop them from mocking the big ideas of the world, you sons of bitches, a couple of Armenians talking in the world, go ahead and try to destroy them.”
― WILLIAM SAROYAN

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies