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“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

“Il racconto non ha la capacità di modificare quel che è successo, può però trasformare ciò che verrà. È questa la forza della narrazione:”
― Roberto Saviano, Vieni via con me

“But he’s a fool who doesn’t see how swift the wings of youth are, and how near the cradle lies to the grave.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Canti

“Le cose poi marciscono, più che morire marciscono, e possono anche vivere da marce. Son due cose diverse, morire e marcire. Bisognerebbe che morissero subito senza marcire.”
― Paolo Colagrande, Senti le rane

“I bambini non vedono la Morte. Perché la loro vita dura un giorno, da quando si svegliano a quando vanno a dormire.”
― Donato Carrisi, The Whisperer

“I soon discovered that I was getting used to being happy and unhappy at the same time, as if that were the new, inevitable law of my life.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone di pensieri

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.”
― Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author

“Chi ride è malvagio solo per chi crede in ciò di cui si ride.”
― Umberto Eco, Misreadings

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
― Francesco Petrarch

“What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
― Erica Jong

“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
― Cat Cora

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“The moment you put a deadline on your dream, it becomes a goal.”
― Harsha Bhogle, The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers

“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Wielka Poezja będąc wielką i będąc poezją nie może nie zachwycać nas, a więc zachwyca!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Nel paese della bugia, la verità è una malattia.”
― Gianni Rodari

“Certi tesori esistono soltanto per chi batte per primo una strada nuova.”
― Gianni Rodari

“Nessun maggior dolore
che ricordarsi del tempo felice
nella miseria...”
― Dante Alighieri , The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Essere nomade per spirito, per lavoro, per scelta, significa sentirsi a casa in ogni parte del mondo. Perché il mondo è la casa di tutte le case.”
― Piero Pelù, Spacca l'infinito. Il romanzo di una vita