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| "All the pale horses of the apocalypse have stormed through my life, revolution, starvation, devaluation of currency and terror, epidemics, emigration; I have seen the great ideologies of the masses grow and spread out before my eyes. Fascism in Italy, National Socialism in Germany, Bolshevism in Russia, and, above all, that archpestilence, nationalism, which poisoned our flourishing European culture." |
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| The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write. |
Alberto Moravia (28 November 1907 - 26 September 1990)
Iakovos Kambanellis (2 December 1921 – 29 March 2011)
Mikis Theodorakis (29 July 1925 – 2 September 2021)
Maria Farantouri * 28 November 1947
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| My baker said it by using a German idiom: Violence against women does not come into the bag |
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| And in 13 other languages: SAY NO to violence against women! Living in freedom without violence |
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
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| The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable. |
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| A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love |
Ricardo Piglia (24 November 1941 – 6 January 2017)
Camille Thomas * May 1988
Beatrice Berrut * 19 April 1985
Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828)
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| Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. |
