“My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.”

The Modern Prince and other Writings, quoting a letter to his sister

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Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and lingu… 1891–1937

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