Beyond the tragic blows and the brooding over violence, beyond the labour over errors and repenting over deeds, beyond the evenings without dialogues and the nights full of suspicion, beyond the days in which the happy ones revel in their narrow happiness – is it possible that to give blows to one another is the only reality? (Aldo Capitini)

Beyond the tragic blows and the brooding over violence, beyond the labour over errors and repenting over deeds, beyond the evenings without dialogues and the nights full of suspicion, beyond the days in which the happy ones revel in their narrow happiness – is it possible that to give blows to one another is the only reality?

Aldo Capitini

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