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Aldo Palazzeschi

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Italian novelist, poet and essayist (1885-1974)

Person · Open Library

Born
1885
Died
1974
Works
109

Top works

  • Difetti
  • Il controdolore
  • ... L'incendiario 1905-1909
  • Il codice di Perelà
  • Stampe dell'800

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
11
Total plays
36

Tags

poetryitalian

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Quotes

  • The things that are being done in Jerusalem are not much different from those being done in Rome, New York, Berlin, Paris, everywhere. A hundred years more and all cities will resemble each other with enervating sameness, with gray, uniform flatness.
  • From the moment painting ceased to be religious it started to decay, so that now it has reached a childishness that borders on idiocy. People who admire it are even greater idiots than those who paint. Art loses all reason for being if it's not animated by a great feeling.
  • If you want to know something about these people and enjoy them somewhat, before buying the map of the city you should buy the sonnets of Gioacchino Belli, the true guide of Rome. It's easy reading, educational and fun. Dante should be read to understand Florence and the Florentines; Belli, to understand Rome and the Romans. The first one never makes you laugh, the second makes you laugh all the time. And then get to know the inns.
  • Science in its amazing conquests, the mind in its almost infinite ways, have only limited, barred, and obstructed their search for a reality which doesn't exist, since everything is real and everything is unreal. What do I care if I fly like a sparrow or a finch if my mind remains that of the sparrow and the finch.

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