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| Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. * I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science. |
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| In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. |
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| There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. |
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| Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honour and dishonour, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ... I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough. * I live quietly at home among family and friends. |
Antonio Tabucchi (24 September 1943 – 25 March 2012)
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| Fortune favours fools, or as a German saying goes, "Die dümmsten Bauern ernten die dicksten Kartoffeln" (The dumbest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes). Once again the old saying offered me great comfort. |
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| And here to put my genius into the right perspective. |
* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.
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| "No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman." |
Frank O'Connor (17 September 1903 – 10 March 1966)
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| „There's nobody can fix this but yourself. You are the only one who can make the changes.“ |
Bernard MacLaverty *14 September 1942
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| * Divine Comedy * "The secret of getting things done is to act!" * Follow your path, and let the people talk. * "He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it." * "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. |
Dante Aleghieri (1265 – 14 September 1321)
