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Title: I...
Author: Renzo Novatore
Date: 15 january 1925
Language: en
Topics: egoism, individualism, Libertarian Labyrinth
Source: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/working-translations/renzo-novatore-je-i/
Notes: publicated posthumously in the french anarchist magazine l’en dehors 4 no. 51, translated by Shawn P. Wilbur

Renzo Novatore

I...

I have always been the one that I was, and I will always be the one that

I could be; for two relative subjects alone are true: the sun could not

become the moon, but if by some chance it should become it, it would no

longer be the sun. So who is it that wishes to divert my course?

Do not dam the river, if you have good sense.

Let the joyous violence rush along its tranquil bed. Don’t you see how

merrily it sings as it hastens towards its ocean?

I say to you, wise ones: Do not make tragic what can be cheerful. That

would be an injury to everything, but the worst harm would be at the

expense of human beauty.

And let this be said once again to the too-long ears of the ancient

aristocracy, for it is not only a privilege of caste to live superbly

beyond good and evil, but also a privilege of strength and good taste…

of all strength, of all good taste.

So when will the day break when a man will become a God of Joy and

Laughter?

Who would prevent us from making of the entire world a celebration, a

free and magnificent feast?

We have announced it.

Let every river rush toward its ocean, to the accents of its joyous

songs.

I am the one who is and I go toward my ocean, which is beautiful, deep

and joyful, because it is mine — uniquely mine.

Woe to those who live near my banks, if they should obstruct my course!