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.
So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.
Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.
I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.
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