11 quotes found
“The revolution is now just a sentiment.”
“We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.”
“Every day my anxiety is higher,every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me”
“If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.”
“The fury of confession, at first,then the fury of clarity:It was from you, Death, that such hypocriticalobscure feeling was born! And nowlet them accuse me of every passion,let them bad-mouth me, l...”
“I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla,thinkingwith my old, magnificentprivilege of thinking(And let there still be a god in me that thinks,lost, weak, and childish,yet whose voice is so humanit i...”
“The birds sang in the dustin an elaborate weave, ambiguous,deafening, prey to existencepoor passions lost between the modestsummits of groves of mulberry and elder;and I, like them, in secluded pla...”
“Behold those times re-created bythe brutal power of sunlit images,the light of lifes tragedy.The walls of the trial, the fieldof the firing squad; and the distantghost of Romes suburbs in a ring,gl...”
“First the mania for confession,then the mania for clarity,issued from you, dark, hypocriticalsentiment! Let them nowcondemn my every passion, let themdrag me through the mud, call me twisted,foul p...”
“I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the ele...”
“I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla,thinking—with my old, magnificentprivilege of thinking…(And let there still be a god in me that thinks,lost, weak, and childish,yet whose voice is so humanit...”
