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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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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Alienation
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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry
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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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Poetry
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Future
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our childrens children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously. – Maggie Q

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Future

The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I wont forget. I cant forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future. – Junior Seau

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Future

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. – Mike Rounds

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Future

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Future

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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. – Lydia M. Child

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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. – Charles Horton Cooley

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year. – Jane Fonda

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Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying. – Nikki Giovanni

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