:52:03
which govern life
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we will find that the only person
with more illusions than the dreamer
:52:09
is the man of action.
:52:12
But men are slaves of words.
:52:15
They rage against materialism,
:52:18
forgetting that there has been
no material improvement
:52:22
which has not spiritualized
the world.
:52:25
And few have been
the spiritual awakenings
:52:28
which have not dissipated
the world's faculties
:52:31
with sterile hopes. ''
:52:35
''He also explained to us
:52:37
that we have democracy
because partisans died
:52:40
and it will be difficult because
democracy is like the fields
:52:43
which need
to be tended to every day.
:52:46
Our teacher is from the city
:52:48
but he makes us write
about the country. ''
:52:52
''Essays''...
:52:53
...and ''problems'', both misspelt.
:52:59
He was a nice kid, from Fidenza.
:53:01
Intelligent, the one who
understood the most.
:53:05
You know, l'm naive.
:53:07
For 17 years I have insisted
on that essay on April 25th.
:53:13
Italians have never been able
to understand these things.
:53:17
Rather, they can understand...
:53:19
...but they quickly forget.
:53:21
Too quickly.
:53:23
You were very young in '45.
:53:26
Were you already teaching?
:53:27
It was my first year.
:53:31
What a year '45! There was
so much confusion in my head!
:53:35
You're only good at putting order
in other people's minds.
:53:39
Order...
:53:45
I wouldn't know what to do
with your order.
:53:48
' You take the world as it comes.
' Life is not order.
:53:52
It'd be terrible if it was...
:53:54
We must not...
we cannot accept it.
:53:58
' We want to change it.
' What can you change?