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 real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . .
One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
We are always the same age inside.
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