e la morte vien dietro a gran giornate,
e le cose presenti e le passate
mi danno guerra, e le future ancora:
I used to wonder what things, in the past, he was remembering when he said it. Because even a priest must remember! If his body dies, his mind does not.
Someone asked me one day why I read so much.
Are you ambitious?
No.
Why then?
For pleasure perhaps! I have no desire to know anything.
Then why?