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ציטוט מתוך ספרו של הסופר והמסאי האיטלקי רוברטו קאלאסו, The Unnamble Present, שראה אור בתרגום לאנגלית בשנת 2020: 

 
The more insubstantial the world is, the more people there are to complain about it. But even their complaint is insubstantial. 

Robert Frost examined the difference between “grievances” and “griefs” in his introduction to a posthumous collection by E. A. Robinson, a poet he much admired: “Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience. 

We may be required by law to throw away patience as we have been required to surrender gold; since by throwing away patience and joining the impatient in one last rush on the citadel of evil, the hope is we may end the need of patience. 

There will be nothing left to be patient about. The day of perfection waits on unanimous social action. 

Two or three more good national elections should do the business. 

It has been similarly urged on us to give up courage, make cowardice a virtue, and see if that won't end war, and the need of courage. 

Desert religion for science, clean out the holes and corners of the residual unknown, and there will be no more need of religion. 

(Religion is merely consolation for what we don't know.) 

But suppose there was some mistake; and the evil stood siege, the war didn't end, and something remained unknowable. 

Our having disarmed would make our cat worse than it had ever been before. 

Nothing in the latest advices from Wall Street, the League of Nations, or the Vatican inclines me to give up my holdings in patient grief." It was the definitive response to all pacifism and to all grievances about the way of the world.