Fabio Raffaelli

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“E inoltre il miracolo, proprio il miracolo, per quanto ci dicano, non è mica una cosa buona, se bisogna piegare la logica e la ragione intima delle cose per renderle migliori.”
― José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World