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“Haven't we outgrown all this tired irony? Weren't we supposed to give up acting twenty-two forever?”
― Lunar Park
― Lunar Park
“Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women, you're supposed to make conversation?" she added; her half smile was perhaps meant to be ironic, though to Amedeo, who at that moment would have paid anything rather than give up his novel, it seemed downright threatening.”
― Difficult Loves
― Difficult Loves
“...maybe writing doesn't require sacrifice. Maybe it's a gift to experience emotions through our brushes, ink, and paper. I wrote out sorrow, fear, and hate. You wrote desire, joy, and love. We paid a heavy price for speaking our minds, for revealing our hearts, for trying to create, but it was worth it, wasn't it, daughter?”
― Peony in Love
― Peony in Love
“It's not easy for me either, but if we allow anger to reside in us, we're more guilty than they are because we know the better way.”
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“Occasionally Leonardo appended a moral lesson to the entry, such as this: “The oyster, when the moon is full, opens itself wide, and when the crab looks in he throws in a stone or seaweed and the oyster cannot close again, whereby it serves for food to that crab. This is what happens to him who opens his mouth to tell his secret. He becomes the prey of the treacherous hearer.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
― Leonardo da Vinci
Florence’s 2025 Year in Books
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