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“The fury of confession, at first, then the fury of clarity: It was from you, Death, that such hypocritical obscure feeling was born! And now let them accuse me of every passion, let them bad-mouth me, let them say I’m deformed, impure, obsessed, a dilettante, a perjurer. You isolate me, you give me the certainty of life, I’m on the stake. I play the card of fire and I win this little, immense goodness of mine. I can do it, for I have suffered you too much! I return to you as an émigré returns to his own country and rediscovers it: I made a fortune (in the intellect) and I’m happy, as I once was, destitute of any norm, a black rage of poetry in my breast. A crazy old-age youth. Once your joy was confused with terror, it’s true, and now almost with other joy, livid and arid, my passion deluded. Now you really frighten me, for you are truly close to me, part of my angry state, of obscure hunger, of the anxiety almost of a new being.”

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Book:Roman Poems
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“It’s not Love. But what fault is it of mine if my affections do not become Love? Very much my fault, I would say, when I can live from day to day on mad purity, blind pity… Make a scandal of meekness. But the violence of the senses and intellect that has confounded me for years was the only way.”

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Book:Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The: A Bilingual Edition
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“I, too, head for the Baths of Caracalla, thinking—with my old, magnificent privilege of thinking… (And let there still be a god in me that thinks, lost, weak, and childish, yet whose voice is so human it is almost a song.) Oh, to leave this prison of poverty! To be free of the yearning that makes these ancient nights so splendid! He who knows yearning, and he who does not, have something in common: man’s desires are humble.”

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Book:Selected Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini, The: A Bilingual Edition
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“Siamo stanchi di diventare giovani seri, o contenti per forza, o criminali, o nevrotici: vogliamo ridere, essere innocenti, aspettare qualcosa dalla vita, chiedere, ignorare. Non vogliamo essere subito già così sicuri. Non vogliamo essere subito già così senza sogni.”

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Book:Lettere luterane. Il progresso come falso progresso
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“L'ansia del consumo è un'ansia di obbedienza a un ordine non pronunciato. Ognuno in Italia sente l'ansia, degradante, di essere uguale agli altri nel consumare, nell'essere felice, nell'essere libero: perché questo è l'ordine che egli ha inconsciamente ricevuto, a cui «deve» obbedire, a patto di sentirsi diverso. Mai la diversità è stata una colpa così spaventosa come in questo periodo di tolleranza.”

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Book:Scritti corsari
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“Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.”

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Book:P.P.P., Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Death
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“It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is Reality. If I have chosen to be a filmmaker as well as a writer it is because, rather than expressing reality through those symbols that are words, I have preferred the cinema as a means of expression - to express reality through reality.”

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Book:Pier Paolo Pasolini: a future life
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