“Some of us were communists because we needed a push towards something new, because we were ready to change every day, because we felt the need of a different morality, because maybe it was only a force, a flight, a dream, it was only a shove, a desire to change things, to change life. Some of us were communists because with that push everyone was as if more than himself, like two people in one. On one hand the personal daily grind and on the other the sense of belonging to a breed that wanted to take flight to truly change life. No, no regrets. Maybe some opened their wings without being able to fly, like imaginary seagulls. And now? Even now, the feeling of being in two: on one hand, the man who passes obsequiously through the squalor of his own daily survival and on the other the seagull, without even the intention of flying, because now the dream is numbed. Two miseries in one body.”
Giorgio Gaber (via kaygeeuk)
