"How many times have I asked myself whether it was possible to tie oneself to a mass without ever having loved anyone .. whether one could love a collectivity if one hadn’t deeply loved some single human beings . . . Wouldn’t this have made barren my qualities as a revolutionary, wouldn’t it have reduced them to a pure intellectual fact, a pure mathematical calculation?"
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Adele Cambria
Adele Cambria (12 July 1931, in Reggio Calabria – 5 November 2015, in Rome was an Italian journalist, writer and actress.
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