Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.
Interpretation
Tears can provide a temporary shield from our shortcomings, giving us a way to blame external circumstances without challenge.
This quote by Italo Svevo suggests that when we are emotional, particularly when we cry, we may feel a momentary release from the judgment of our own flaws. Tears can create a protective barrier that allows us to express our frustrations with fate and circumstances, enabling us to vocalize grievances without the worry of contradiction or scrutiny, as our emotional state might obscure our accountability.
In practice
Using this quote during a discussion on how emotions affect our judgment.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
The fancies of wine are authentic events.
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
The choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason; and having endeavoured to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason; as if man could give reason to himself.
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by secret cachet: one man did something absolutely extraordinary in Norway; another was the darling of the French Resistance. We didn't even show passes to go in and out of the building.
In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.
Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.
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