Daniele

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

“No one should need to be big enough to destroy others and all of us must have to be powerful and resourceful enough to protect ourselves.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner