I feel immense physical, intellectual and emotional fatigue, so much so that at times I feel like throwing myself to the side of the road and dying, just like that, from exhaustion, from an inability to express myself, from a lack of love for life and the struggle, and simply because I no longer want to fight and make myself understood.
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Avverto un’immensa fatica fisica e intellettuale, affettiva, tanto che mi pare a momenti di dovermi gettare ai margini di un sentiero e di morire, così, per esaurimento, per incapacità di esprimermi, per disamore per la vita e la lotta, e semplicemente perché non ho più voglia di battermi e di farmi capire.
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Written in his diary in mid-August 1992, a few days after 31 July, the day on which he signed the agreement abolishing the “scala mobile” (index-linked pay rises) and resigned from the CGIL secretariat. As quoted in Marco Cianca, Trentin, escono i diari segreti Critiche ai leader della sinistra: da Luciano Lama a Fausto Bertinotti, Corriere.it (June 5, 2017)