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Quote by Eugenio Montale
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance a

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? – Eugenio Montale

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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. – Eugenio Montale

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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical. – Eugenio Montale

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Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Langs feeble imagination. – Henry Miller

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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. – William Morris

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The future is called perhaps, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams

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There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently. – Mitchell Reiss

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