"You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide."
"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."
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Source: Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.83, Vintage
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