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“Try to remember that artists in these catastrophic times, along with the serious scientists, are the only salvation for us, if there is to be any.”
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“All books have to be researched, but readable books have their research buried.”
― Book of Numbers
― Book of Numbers
“But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.”
― The Ice-Shirt
― The Ice-Shirt
“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
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“Everything that is ended, everything that is last, naturally awakens in man a feeling of sorrow and melancholy. At the same time, it excites a pleasurable feeling, pleasurable in that very sorrow, and that is because of the infiniteness of the idea that is contained in the words ended, last, etc. ( Thus by their nature such words are, and always will be, poetic, however ordinary and common they are, in whatever language and style.)”
― Zibaldone di pensieri
― Zibaldone di pensieri
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