Celati

‘I think of those who organize everything according to what they have learned, believing only in what they’ve read in books and newspapers, and look down with condescension upon this world because they hate to feel lost, exposed to the randomness of appearances. If you have the feeling that you know everything, the desire to observe disappears.’ - Gianni Celati, Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), trans. by Patrick Barron, p. 49