Luca Speciale

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

“It had been washed clean of beauty. In the final reckoning there is only love, only that divinity. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“Life, after all, is not a high thing, and in many ways is the reverse of purity. I am wise now, if not much older, and I know it is better to have all things, high and low, than to have the high only.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw

“In the final reckoning there is only love, only that divinity. That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw