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Elisa’s Quotes

“La scrittura esige virtù scoraggianti, sforzi, pazienza; è un'attività solitaria in cui il pubblico esiste solo come speranza.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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“Certe mattine
al risveglio
c’è una bambina pugile
nello specchio,
i segni della lotta
sotto gli occhi
e agli angoli della bocca,
la ferocia della ferita
nello sguardo.
Ha lottato tutta la notte
con la notte,
un peso piuma
e un trasparente gigante
un macigno scagliato
verso l’alto
e un filo d’erba impassibile
che lo aspetta
a pugni alzati:
come sono soli gli adulti.”
― Chandra Livia Candiani, La bambina pugile ovvero la precisione dell'amore

tags: bambina-pugile, livia-candiani, poetry

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“Le persone silenziose sono quelle che hanno le menti più rumorose.”
― Stephen Hawking

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“Eisenhower started his presidency on this same note, with a plea to avoid what he called the “burden of arms. . . . Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
― Douglas Brinkley, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race

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“you humans are a lonely lot of folks. You never have known your fellow-man. You can’t know him because you haven’t the common touch of understanding that makes it possible to know him. You have friendships, sure, but those friendships are based on pure emotions, never on real understanding. You get along together, sure. But you get along by tolerance rather than by understanding. You work out your problems by agreement, but that agreement is simply a matter of the stronger-minded among you beating down the opposition of the weaker ones.” “What’s”
― Clifford D. Simak, City

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