Posted by: Carlo Sina
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. (from "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. (from "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
With love you can't go to market. It's its joy, like the joy of intellect, is feeling alive. The reason for love is loving: no more, no less.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
I would like time to forget all I have learned.
Behind lives sublime, there is always something tragic. Large trials are needed because a tiny flower can flourish.
A tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind.
We hear a lot of beauty that is in the certainty; it seems that you ignore the more subtle beauty that is in doubt. Believing is very monotonous, the doubt is deeply passionate Being wary, there's life; being lulled into tranquility, there's death.
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit. Touch it and the bloom is gone...
Time is a waste of money.