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.
Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.
Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.
Darkness as well as light. Or do I mean darkness, another kind of light? Lucifer would say so, and I have a weakness for fallen angels.
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