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Have really enjoyed this book, very interesting and informative! Really appreciate the year-by-year format as I'd never paid close enough attention to when the gialli I've watched were released. Left me with a much better perspective on even the film
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“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Wise is the man who monotonizes his existence, for then each minor incident seems a marvel.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly improbable in fact happen.”
― Personal Impressions
― Personal Impressions
“a reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Anything and everything, depending on how one sees it, is a marvel or a hindrance, an all or a nothing, a path or a problem. To see something in constantly new ways is to renew and multiply it. That is why the contemplative person, without ever leaving his village, will nevertheless have the whole universe at his disposal. There’s infinity in a cell or a desert. One can sleep cosmically against a rock.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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