“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
― Ninety-Three
― Ninety-Three
“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
― Baudolino
― Baudolino
“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
― The Devil and Miss Prym
― The Devil and Miss Prym
“The good thing about the studium is the that you learn from your teachers, true, but even more from your fellows, especially those older than you, when they tell you what they have read, and you discover that the world must be full of wondrous things and to know them all - since a lifetime will not be a enough for you to travel through the whole world - you can only read all the books.”
― Baudolino
― Baudolino
“After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean.”
― Ninety-Three
― Ninety-Three
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