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“In studying your basic metabolism, we first listen to your heart's beat, and if your hearts beat anything but diamonds and clubs, it's because your partner is cheating, or your wife.”
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“Man for Leopardi is first and foremost an animal, and his history is merely the last section of the much more ancient history of all living species, which in their turn are an integral part of the entire ecological system.”
― Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
― Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
“But what came easily to Homer (and to Xenophon, in prose) was no longer easily available to the moderns, who introduced the presence of the representing subject into representation itself (Byron being a prime example in the Zibaldone).”
― Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
― Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
“Modernity, characterized by the diffusion of a written culture, has lost the memory of the oral origins of poetry; this insight is reaffirmed by Leopardi in 1831”
― Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
― Zibaldone: The Notebooks of Leopardi
“death holds up an all-seeing mirror, ‘the mirror of past actions’, to our eyes, in which the consequences of all our negative and positive actions are clearly seen and there is a weighing of our past actions in the light of their consequences, the balance of which will determine the kind of existence or mental state we are being driven to enter.”
― The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation
― The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation
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