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“Non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.”
― Alessandro Baricco, Tre volte all'alba

“You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“As is always the case with a thoroughly attractive woman, her defect—the shortness of her upper lip and her half-open mouth—seemed to be her own special and peculiar form of beauty.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as quickly as possible of the painful emotion aroused by the sight of another's unhappiness, that pity which is not compassion, but only an instinctive desire to fortify one's own soul agains the sufferings of another; and the other, the only one at counts, the unsentimental but creative kind, which knows what it is about and is determined to hold out, in patience and forbearance, to the very limit of its strength and even beyond.”
― Stefan Zweig, Beware of Pity