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Sorrow, like joy, is absolute.
The Inferno (1917)
"I have such respect for the actual truth that there are moments when I do not dare to call things by their name," the poet ended.
The Inferno (1917)
We do not die since we are alone. It is the others who die. And this sentence, which comes to my lips tremulously, at once baleful and beaming with light, announces that death is a false god.
The Inferno (1917)
All we can say is: I am alone.
The Inferno (1917)
Where are the words that will light the way? What is humanity in the world, and what is the world?
Everything is within me, and there are no judges, and there are no boundaries and no limits to me.
The Inferno (1917)
"This is the subject," said Pierre Villiers. "It gives me scope to amuse and tell the truth at the same time. A man pierces a hole in the wall of a boarding-house room, and watches what is going on in the next room."
The Inferno (1917)
A stupor and a sort of shame overwhelmed me as I heard that man trying to extract the utmost entertainment possible from the dark happenings that had been torturing me for a month.
The Inferno (1917)
What am I? I am the desire not to die.
The Inferno (1917)
I came and went in the midst of the naked truth. I am not a man of peculiar and exceptional traits. I recognise myself in everybody. I have the same desires, the same longings as the ordinary human being.
The Inferno (1917)
I followed them with my eyes going through life, which would be nothing to them but fields, mountains, or forests. I saw them veiled in a kind of light, sheltered from darkness, protected for a time against the fearful spell of memory and thought.
The Inferno (1917)