I feel a strong desire to expose my frailty, to show it to everyone that meets me and see me, as was my main identification of a man, of a man of this world. Once I was taught to hide weaknesses, not to bring out the flaws which would have prevented me from highlighting my merits and making me estimate. Now I want to talk about my frailty, not disguise it, being convinced it is a force that helps me live.

Vittorino Andreoli The Glass Man: The Strength of Fragility

It is said that education has to build a strong child, a man of courage who faces struggles and wins them. Shyness, on the other hand, needs to be cured and hidden before achieving that; fear has to be forgotten and replaced with power, and for this reason you are trained to beat an enemy, first imaginary and then in the flesh; and skill lies breaking instead of getting broken into.

Vittorino Andreoli The Glass Man: The Strength of Fragility

I am a fragile psychiatrist who assembles pieces of man to smile, hope, love, and feel their fragility. The psychiatrist does not rebuild the greatness but always the fragility. It is as if he loved the characteristics of the fragile man, not the ones of the all-powerful, the strong; if the strength is in that inadequacy, in that awareness of being able to break, as a “secret” vessel, only if it breaks out something strange and precious.

Vittorino Andreoli The Glass Man: The Strength of Fragility

Every sick person who has been sitting in front of me has entered my story, either because it has involved me humanly by showing a possible story to my existence, and because that man, within the masks of madness, showed new human expressions of suffering and ache.

Vittorino Andreoli The Glass Man: The Strength of Fragility