“Thus, after pursuing those images, I overtook them. Now I know that I invented them. But inventing is a creation, not a lie.”

— Italo Svevo, book Zeno's Conscience

È così che a forza di correr dietro a quelle immagini, io le raggiunsi. Ora so di averle inventate. Ma inventare è una creazione, non già una menzogna.
Source: La coscienza di Zeno (1923), P. 337; p. 404.

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