Davide Massimo

“In time you shall see Fate approach you
In the shape of your own image in the mirror.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, N.P

“Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death.
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Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha