Quote by Eugenio Montale
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution o

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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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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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. – 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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We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world — mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt. – R. D. Laing

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Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to. – Bob Dylan

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