John P.

“What a mess the world is in,” cried the man, reading the news in his paper. “It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“The fact is, my dear friend, love of the truth is higher and purer than any other. The truth, however poor and naked it may be, is more lovable and more holy than any sumptuous, dressed-up falsehood. And thus every time I’m able remove some flounce or frill from you, my heart leaps in my breast and a triumphal crown girds my head. Blessed be that philosophy that teaches us that though we be mortal, weak and unhappy, we can be great in equality, liberty and love!”
― Ippolito Nievo, Le confessioni d'un Italiano

“Women, our superiors! Yes, my brothers: accept this strange judgement from the mouth of one who has known many of them. They”
― Ippolito Nievo, Confessions of an Italian

“Those who have minds have no regard for birth.”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]