I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
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I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.Eugenio Montale
Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.
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Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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