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

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This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. – Eugenio Montale

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Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection. – Eugenio Montale

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