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"Un canto al giorno per tre mesi. La sola prospettiva mi fa già sentire infinitamente meglio, a dispetto dell'incresciosa situazione sanitaria. Non c'è nulla da fare: comunque vadano le cose, rileggere Dante sarà sempre come tornare a casa." — Oct 27, 2020 11:21AM
"Un canto al giorno per tre mesi. La sola prospettiva mi fa già sentire infinitamente meglio, a dispetto dell'incresciosa situazione sanitaria. Non c'è nulla da fare: comunque vadano le cose, rileggere Dante sarà sempre come tornare a casa." — Oct 27, 2020 11:21AM
“Why waste my anger on you when the fault is mine? I should have anticipated another betrayal from you, one more mad grasp at some kind of childish ideal. But I seem to be a victim of my own wishes where you are concerned.” His expression hardened. “What have you come here for, Alina?”
I answered him honestly. “I wanted to see you.”
I caught the briefest glimpse of surprise before his face shuttered again. “There are two thrones on that dais. You could see me any time you liked.”
― Ruin and Rising
I answered him honestly. “I wanted to see you.”
I caught the briefest glimpse of surprise before his face shuttered again. “There are two thrones on that dais. You could see me any time you liked.”
― Ruin and Rising
“Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”
― A Farewell to Arms
― A Farewell to Arms
“I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any of you. You overrated bunch of charlatans deal with the grammar of human problems, and the writers I've mentioned with the essence.”
― Barney's Version
― Barney's Version
“Beauty was your armor. Fragile stuff, all show. But what's inside you? That's steel. It's brave and unbreakable. And it doesn't need fixing.”
― Ruin and Rising
― Ruin and Rising
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