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.
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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:
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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, Invisible Cities
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This makes me want to reread Italo Calvino novels I enjoyed some years ago.
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May I continue to see the flames for what they are, and understand their purpose, so I may reject them as the unnecessary suffering of the living, and not accept them as the just way things are.
May I not allow the flames to consume me in my personal fight for a just world.




