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consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience

consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience

He was quite learned, and despite my fatigue I sat and heard him out with admiration. Long afterwards I discovered that he had borrowed the brilliant theories of the young suicide Weininger.* At that moment I suffered the burden of the Bach all over again. I even suspected he had some therapeutic aim. If not,…

consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience

She said: “You, Zeno, need a woman who wants to live for you and help you. I want to be that woman.” She held out her plump hand, which I kissed, as if by instinct. Obviously it was impossible to do anything else. I must then confess that at that moment I was filled with…

You mustn’t take offense, Zeno, because that would grieve me. I know you’re a good sort and you know many things, without knowing it, whereas my professors know exactly what they know. consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience

consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience

Never again, neither before nor after, was I able to feel in that way the beauty of that music born from those four strings like a Michelangelo angel from a block of marble. Only my state of mind was new to me, and it led me to look up, ecstatic, as if at something totally…

consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience

consciousnessItalo Svevophilosophical literatureTriesteZeno’s Conscience