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Giacomo Leopardi Quotes

1798–1837 Italy

Also known as: Leopardi

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I found myself desperately bored with life, with a very strong desire to kill myself, and had an intimation of something bad, which frightened me at the very moment that I wanted to die, and placed me immediately in a state of apprehension and anxiety. I have never felt so strongly the absolute conflict of the elements that form the present human condition, forced to fear for its life and to seek at all costs to preserve it, just then when it was most burdensome, and when it could resolve to be ended by its own will (but by no other cause).

Zibaldone (1898)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Giacomo Leopardi (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.