"In the cool wind that rises in the night [...] perhaps a glimmer of hope is rekindled: that the horrors of life can be forgotten, and its labyrinthine and tormenting problems transformed into value, with the passing of time [...] in the slow and irreversible journey towards death. A smile consoles you, a gesture of affection reaches you, even if it ignores your anguish."
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Diario fenomenologico, il Saggiatore, Milano, 1961, p. 53. Quoted in Vittorio Sereni, Il grande amico. Poesie 1935-1981, introduzione di Gilberto Leonardi, abridged by Luca Lenzini, I Grandi Classici Della Poesia, Fabbri Editori, Milano, 1997, p. 267, footnote.
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Enzo Paci
1911 – 1976
q:it:Enzo Paci (1911 - 1976) was an Italian philosopher.
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