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“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“There' s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away,
When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“La vita è un inganno con l’angoscia ammaliante,
Per questo essa è cosi’ forte,
Perchè con la sua rozza mano
Scrive lettere fatali.
Sempre, quando chiudo gli occhi,
Dico: “Inquieta soltanto il cuore,
La vita è un inganno, ma anch’essa talora
Abbellisce di gioia la menzogna.
Volgi il volto verso il cielo grigio,
In base alla luna indovina il destino,
Tranquillizzati, mortale, e non chiedere
Quella verità che non ti è necessaria.”
E’ bello nella bufera dei ciliegi selvatici
Pensare che la vita è un sentiero.
Che ingannino pure le leggere amiche,
Che tradiscano i leggeri amici.
Che mi accarezzino con tenera parola,
Che sia la malalingua più affilata di un rasoio,
Da molto tempo vivo pronto a tutto,
Sono abituato senza pietà a ogni cosa.
Questi alti cieli mi raggelano l’anima,
Il fuoco delle stelle non manda calore.
Quelli che ho amato mi hanno rinnegato,
Quelli per cui sono vissuto mi hanno dimenticato.
Ma tuttavia, perseguitato e cacciato,
Io guardo l’alba con un sorriso,
Sulla terra a me, vicina e cara,
Questa vita ringrazio di tutto.”
― Sergei Yesenin, Poesie e poemetti

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

“Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.”
― Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses

“Non gli dispiaceva raccontare di sé, ma era spaventoso come l'evocazione dei ricordi servisse solo a rendere la sua esistenza sempre più ambigua e incerta. [...] la parte di ricordanze che aveva la funzione di controllo e di indagine non andava forse accumulandosi di nascosto come letame?" pp.1338-9, Yukio Mishima, Romanzi e Racconti, La casa di Kyoko, volume 1, i Meridiani”
― Yukio Mishima, Romanzi e Racconti

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“You can be sincere and still be stupid.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three

“Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.”
― Saint Thomas Aquinas

“Love follows knowledge.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“It is better to illuminate than merely to shine.
Maius est illuminare quam lucere solum.”
― Thomas Aquinas

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.”
― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society