Posted by: Edoardo Grimoldi
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
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Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
Some qualities help to bear the faults of one's neighbour and a man of great genius will usually give less attention to another's stupidity than a fool.
Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
It is a misfortune to not be loved but an insult to not be loved anymore.
All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
One loves only what one doesn't entirely posess.
Love is space and time made tender to the heart.