Forwarded from alcoholic.exe
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
We can only thank with our selves. Love transforms gratitude into loyalty to our selves and unconditional faith in the other. That is how love steadily intensifies its innermost secret.
Here, being close is a matter of being at the greatest distance from the other — distance that lets nothing blur — but instead puts the “thou” into the mere presence — transparent but incomprehensible — of a revelation.
The other’s presence suddenly breaks into our life — no soul can come to terms with that. A human fate gives itself over to another human fate, and the duty of pure love is to keep this giving as alive as it was on the first day.
Here, being close is a matter of being at the greatest distance from the other — distance that lets nothing blur — but instead puts the “thou” into the mere presence — transparent but incomprehensible — of a revelation.
The other’s presence suddenly breaks into our life — no soul can come to terms with that. A human fate gives itself over to another human fate, and the duty of pure love is to keep this giving as alive as it was on the first day.
D'Annunzioism was an important phenomenon of custom: the model of 'inimitable living' proposed by the writer among refined luxuries, precious sensations, erotic adventures and warlike enterprises, offered a fantastic escape from the frustrations of ordinary individuals, crushed by the nascent mass society.
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and cliches and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.
- Edward L. Bernays
- Edward L. Bernays
A monument in Bolzano, northernmost Italy, erected on the personal orders of Benito Mussolini in South Tyrol.
The following Latin script can be seen on the main façade:
HIC PATRIAE FINES SISTE SIGNA / HINC CETEROS EXCOLVIMVS LINGVA LEGIBVS ARTIBVS
Here at the border of the fatherland set down the banner. From this point on we educated the others with language, law and culture.
The inscription, referring to Roman imperial history, was seen as provocative by many within the German-speaking majority in the province of South Tyrol.
The following Latin script can be seen on the main façade:
HIC PATRIAE FINES SISTE SIGNA / HINC CETEROS EXCOLVIMVS LINGVA LEGIBVS ARTIBVS
Here at the border of the fatherland set down the banner. From this point on we educated the others with language, law and culture.
The inscription, referring to Roman imperial history, was seen as provocative by many within the German-speaking majority in the province of South Tyrol.
Our spirits have their own private way of understanding each other, of becoming intimate, while our external persons are still trapped in the commerce of ordinary words, in the slavery of social rules. Souls have their own needs and their own ambitions, which the body ignores when it sees that it's impossible to satisfy them or achieve them.
- Luigi Pirandello
- Luigi Pirandello