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“l'immagine convenzionale della melodia intesa come un dolce fiume nel quale ci si può immergere e dimenticare non gli era mai sembrata così vera come ora: "Della musica" pensò socchiudendo gli occhi; "e al diavolo tutte le meschinità...: della vera musica.”
― Gli indifferenti
― Gli indifferenti
“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them & they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Un disgusto opaco l'opprimeva; i suoi pensieri non erano che aridità, deserto; nessuna fede, nessuna speranza alla cui ombra riposare e rinfrescarsi”
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“Oh, for Christ's sake!’ he says. ‘A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old.
Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs. You call history to your aid, but what is history to you? It is a mirror that flatters Thomas More. But I have another mirror, I hold it up and it shows a vain and dangerous man, and when I turn it about it shows a killer, for you will drag down with you God knows how many, who will only have the suffering, and not your martyr's gratification. You are not a simple soul, so don't try to make this simple. You know I have respected you? You know I have respected you since I was a child? I would rather see my only son dead, I would rather see them cut off his head, than see you refuse this oath, and give comfort to every enemy of England.”
― Wolf Hall
Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs. You call history to your aid, but what is history to you? It is a mirror that flatters Thomas More. But I have another mirror, I hold it up and it shows a vain and dangerous man, and when I turn it about it shows a killer, for you will drag down with you God knows how many, who will only have the suffering, and not your martyr's gratification. You are not a simple soul, so don't try to make this simple. You know I have respected you? You know I have respected you since I was a child? I would rather see my only son dead, I would rather see them cut off his head, than see you refuse this oath, and give comfort to every enemy of England.”
― Wolf Hall
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