I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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About Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale was a 19th-century Italian writer. Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator. In 1975, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinctive poetry which, with great artistic sensitivity, has interpreted human values under the sign of an outlook on life with no illusions." Read more on Wikipedia →
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- God — Spiritual reflections on the divine, faith, and creation