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The Tunnel
ERNESTO SABATO
"after all, there was only one dark and solitary tunnel, mine, (...) And in one of those transparent places in the wall of stone, I had seen that woman and had thought naively that she was moving through another tunnel parallel to mine when, in reality, she was out in the open world, the limitless world of those who do not live in tunnels;"
"When I had a few friends, they often laughed at my mania of always choosing the most complicated possibilities. And I ask myself, why does reality have to be simple? My experience has taught me that, on the contrary, it is almost never that way."
ERNESTO SABATO
"I could keep to myself the things that made me want to write these pages of confession. But since I have no interest in appearing eccentric, I will tell the truth, that all my reasons are quite simple: I thought that they would be read by many different people, now that I am well-known. And although I don’t have any illusions about humanity in general, or about the readers of these pages in particular, I am encouraged by the weak hope that perhaps someone might be able to understand me. Even if is a single person"
ERNESTO SABATO
"But imagine a captain who always sets his course mathematically and then follows it toward this objective with implacable rigor. But who does not know why he is going toward that objective, do you understand?"
ERNESTO SABATO
"It makes me laugh to hear people talk about the modesty of Einstein, or people like that. The reason: it is easy to be modest when you are a celebrity. I mean, to appear modest. Even when one thinks that it doesn’t exist at all, one quickly discovers its most subtle form: the vanity of modesty!"
ERNESTO SABATO
"When we came out of the woods and I saw the sky above the sea coast, I felt like the sadness was unavoidable; it was the same as always with beauty, or at least with a certain type of beauty. Is everyone like that, or is it just another defect of my unfortunate state of mind?"