Sunday, December 19, 2021

Beers & Books CLXXIX – Italo Svevo

È un modo comodo di vivere
quello di credersi grande
di una grandezza latente.
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    It is comfortable to live
in the belief that you are great,
though your greatness is latent.

Aron Hector Schmitz
(19 December 1861 – 13 September 1928)


4 comments:

  1. Thank you for continuing my education - and for waving temptation in my weak willed (where books are concerned) way.

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    1. The only way to get rid of a temptation, dear Sue, is to yield to it, as Oscar Wilde would say.

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  2. Just wondered if you have a log burning stove at Seanhenge.

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