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“Per ciascuno di voi dovrei provare un certo sentimento, dico dovrei perché volta per volta mi sono accorto che le circostanze ne esigono sempre uno… È come andare ad un funerale o a delle nozze: in ambedue i casi un certo atteggiamento di gioia o di dolore è obbligatorio come il vestito di cerimonia…: non si può ridere seguendo una bara o piangere nel momento nel quale due sposi si scambiano l’anello… sarebbe scandaloso, peggio, inumano… chi per indifferenza non prova nulla, deve fingere… […] Soltanto, io non so fingere… e allora, capisci, a forza di sentimenti, di gesti, di parole, di pensieri falsi, la mia vita diventa tutta una commedia mancata.”
― Alberto Moravia, The Time of Indifference

“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“The idea that others saw in me one that was not the I whom I knew, one whom they alone could know, as they looked at me from without, with eyes that were not my own, eyes that conferred upon me an aspect destined to remain always foreign to me, although it was one that was in me, one that was my own to them (a "mine," that is to say, that was not for me!)—a life into which, although it was my own, I had no power to penetrate—this idea gave me no rest.”
― Luigi Pirandello, One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand