A Quote by Italo Calvino

The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

Italo Calvino

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Italo Calvino
Italian - Journalist
October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

Italo Calvino

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Werner Herzog

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

Henri Barbusse

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Carl Jung

Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

Anders Zorn

How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?

Arun Manilal Gandhi

Society: an inferno of saviors!

Emile M. Cioran

I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. “Who’s Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?” “They won’t accept the charges,” I murmured.