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Analogies between quotations

The five quotations are taken from Roberto Cotroneo's book Tweet Di Un Discorso Amoroso, a collection of thoughts, impressions and reflections on life and love by the writer.

 

Le regole dell'attrazione le cercano tutti. Ma sono le regole della distrazione quelle più interessanti, e non le cerca nessuno.

 

The first quotation refers to the rules of attraction, which everyone searches, but the rules of distraction are most interesting and nobody searches them. People research something attractive or interesting for their life, but they have to research something new or something catching people's minds and hearts. Human beings need to be strong, and not superficial.

Il senso della misura è incommensurabile, in questa modernità.

The second quotations is about the sense of measure in Modernism, where it doesn't exist and in this quote the sense of measure is underlined by the word "immeasurable", which means that there isn't a defined measure of things.

Il pudore è un'intermittenza dello stile.

The third quotation seems to indicate the intermittence of style in different ways. In this case refers to modesty how something changing in the course of years.

I ricordi indietreggiano sempre: come fa il tempo quando lo vai a cercare. Poi quando li metti con le spalle al muro sanno raccontarti tutto.

The fourth quotation  is in contrast with the second quotation because it suggest to a total knowledge of people's existence and memory is able to illustrate all events of the past and it can make clear ti the present.

Ma del pericolo dell'anti-letteratura si è accorto qualcuno? E non è altrettanto grave?

The last quotation is a quest, allowing us to understand the problem of anti-literature and it has the aim to warning us to it. This question is able to allow people to make some reflections about literature and anti-literature.

 

All quotations allows me to comprehend what is reflection and in particular research, but also what life is and the important actions to live.