The inferno of the living is not something that will be; it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together:

- The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it.
- The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

— Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino