The Silence of the Body Quotes

“Even the poorest and most squalid life is an Aeschylean drama, if you think about the tragedy of the bodily functions, the whispering of the secretions, the silence of the organs, the exertions of memory, the groping of the voice, the blood that courses, the mortal miasmas, the riots among microorganisms, the spermatic wars, the cellular eruptions, the pestilences of the nerves, the biochemical predestinations, and the fate that slowly but surely introduces you to the final infection, to the sores, the exploded boils, the snakes of madness, the furious bitches of Hunger.”
― Guido Ceronetti, The Silence of the Body: Materials for the Study of Medicine

“As long as they have the wish to kill, they will not lose the lust to procreate.”
― Guido Ceronetti, The Silence of the Body: Materials for the Study of Medicine

“Man dares to allow himself to be cruel, when he's already committed, tranquilly and repeatedly, the crudest act of all: engendering, condemning beings that do not exist or suffer to the horrors of life.”
― Guido Ceronetti, The Silence of the Body: Materials for the Study of Medicine