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“El héroe verdadero de El Eternauta es un héroe colectivo, un grupo humano. Refleja así, aunque sin intención previa, mi sentir íntimo: el único héroe válido es el héroe "en grupo", nunca el héroe individual, el héroe solo.”
― Héctor Germán Oesterheld, El Eternauta

“Guarda i quartieri moderni fuori le mura scendere dai colli al mare oleoso e verde cupo, i bei palazzi e portici dei tempi di Baccaredda (scrittore e sindaco, amato e carogna) e il lascito architettonico di quest’epoca ai futuri: il cubo luttuoso e vitreo che nasconde i vicoli del porto e offende il municipio bianco e danzante cui si è affiancato con protervia da funzionario viceregio d’altri tempi (non è escluso che i futuri decidano di amarlo e cantarlo… o lo smonteranno vetrata per vetrata e lo sposteranno in campagna oltre Palli e invece delle nere geometrie che spengono la luce e l’allegria vedranno panchine, fontane, palme e jacarandas?).

Ruggero Gunale guarda la città che si allontana. Saluta torri pisane e campanili. Sillaba a se stesso: “La mitezza non incute rispetto né suscita vero compatimento. Anzi: godono a schiacciarti.”
(pag. 29)”
― Sergio Atzeni, Il quinto passo è l'addio

“The first time he had taken the massa to one of these "high-falutin' to-dos," as Bell called them, Kunta had been all but overwhelmed by conflicting emotions: awe, indignation, envy, contempt, fascination, revulsion—but most of all a deep loneliness and melancholy from which it took him almost a week to recover. He couldn't believe that such incredible wealth actually existed, that people really lived that way. It took him a long time, and a great many more parties, to realize that they didn't live that way, that it was all strangely unreal, a kind of beautiful dream the white folks were having, a lie they were telling themselves: that goodness can come from badness, that it's possible to be civilized with one another without treating as human beings those whose blood, sweat, and mother's milk made possible the life of privilege they led.”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

“Chi per propria sventura sappia di non essere all’altezza del mignolo sinistro di Conrad ma voglia con onestà narrare, non ha che da guardare la propria nazione, in diretta o nella memoria. Troverà infiniti spunti per intrecci e vicende di romanzo e nella propria identità nazionale un terreno fertile di immagini, modi di dire e costumi che colano e svelano una visione del mondo. La faccenda è complicata, in quest’epoca. L’appartenenza nazionale è doppia o tripla o quadrupla, quando non arricchita o sostituita da un’appartenenza ideologica (come il comunismo) che con atto volontario l’uomo assume a tribù dello spirito. Molteplici sono le radici di ognuno di noi. (p. 992)”
― Sergio Atzeni, Scritti giornalistici

“It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The New Jerusalem

“Ruggero parla a se stesso: “Fuggi. Dopo trentaquattro anni ti strappi alla terra dove hai amato, sofferto e fatto il buffone. Ogni angolo di strada testimonia una tua gioia, un dolore, una paura.
In cambio sarò libero. La maschera che mi cuciranno addosso, lo straniero, l’isolano, il mendicante, mi nasconderà, occulterà il nome, sarò uomo fra uomini… Chi è mite compatisce i persecutori, ne vede la fragilità, le ferite nascoste e non si lamenta del male che subisce.
Tu non sei mite. Ora soltanto hai percepito l’esistenza della mitezza. Perché vinto. Sei stato bestia, avida e feroce, finché avevi forza e te l’hanno permesso. Ora ti mascheri da esiliato, nascondendo il nome che per anni hai sventolato quasi fosse un merito.
Non ho mai colpito per cattiveria. Per noncuranza, magari, o per cecità.
Il nome sparisce, salva per un po’ la lapide in camposanto. E la vicenda presto è dimenticata, cancellata da nuove imprese di tonti e di campioni.”
(pagg. 30-31)”
― Sergio Atzeni, Il quinto passo è l'addio

“Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können. (You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.)”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Maud'Dib, then, take care that you first place him in his time: born in the 57th year of the Padishah Emperor, Shaddam IV. And take the most special care that you locate Maud'Dib in his place: the planet Arrakis. Do not be deceived by the fact that he was born on Caladan and lived his first fifteen years there. Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It is always the enemy who started it, even if he was not the first to speak out, he was certainly planning it; and if he was not actually planning it, he was thinking of it; and, if he was not thinking of it, he would have thought of it.”
― Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

“Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

“Americans don't like to waste time on stupid things, for example, on the torturous process of coming up with names for their towns. And really, why strain yourself when so many wonderful names already exist in the world?

The entrance to the town of Moscow is shown in the photograph. That's right, an absolutely authentic Moscow, just in the state of Ohio, not in the USSR in Moscow province.

There's another Moscow in some other state, and yet another Moscow in a third state. On the whole, every state has the absolute right to have its very own Moscow.”
― Ilya Ilf, Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers

“So what was in this building before historical materialism?'

'Before what?'

'You know, back then, under the old regime?'

'Oh. Under the old regime my master lived here.'

'A bourgeois?'

'You're a bourgeois yourself! He wasn't a bourgeois. He was a marshal of the nobility.'

'So he was a proletarian, then?'

'You're a proletarian yourself! I told you loud and clear, a marshal.'

The conversation with the clever dvornik with a vague understanding of the class structure of society would have lasted god knows how long if the young man hadn't made a decisive move.”
― Ilya Ilf, The Twelve Chairs

“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”
― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness