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"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."

Montale, Eugenio on alienation    Share

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"Too many lives are needed to make just one."

Montale, Eugenio on character    Share

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"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."

Montale, Eugenio on thoughts and thinking    Share

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"The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet erased the traces of the past. We run too fast, but we still do not move enough. He looks but he does not contemplate, he sees but he does not think. He runs away from time, which is made of thought, and yet all he can feel is his own time, the present."

Montale, Eugenio on twentieth century    Share

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