Giulia > Giulia's Quotes

“And yet the tide is eternal. But eternity obeys man more than man imagines.”
― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“If I had had the power to prevent my own birth I should certainly never have consented to accept existence under such ridiculous conditions.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Delicacy and dignity are taught by one's own heart, not by a dancing master.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“Why, you are so eaten up with pride and vanity that you'll end by eating up one another, that's what I prophecy.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness," said the prince in a low voice.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“All that I wanted was to tempt into life things that wanted to come out of me.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Time within Time: The Diaries, 1970–1986

“Being silent for a while is good. Words can’t really express a person’s emotions.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“I feel so frightened of being hurt - not of the suffering, which I know I can handle, but the indignity of being open to it.”
― Sally Rooney , Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I have searched for my mother's love in all the corners of the world.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Remain in Darkness

“Nous sommes une communauté de désirs, non d'action”
― Annie Ernaux, Regarde les lumières mon amour

“By retrieving the memory of collective memory in an individual memory, she will capture the lived dimension of History.”
― Annie Ernaux, The Years

“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Reading is probably another way of being in a place.”
― José Saramago, El hombre duplicado

“...in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.”
― Jose Saramago, The Cave

“blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Don't you know, If you don't step outside yourself, you'll never discover who you are”
― José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island

“...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“I was willing to yield to nostalgia, that melancholy residue of desire.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian