“It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone…”
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The house on the hill (1949), Chapter 8, p. 105
“The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom.
Out of the transient encounter of contrary forces which constitute your existence, strive to create whatever immortal thing a mortal may create in this world — a Cry.
And this Cry, abandoning to the earth the body which gave it birth, proceeds and labors eternally.
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