Posted by: Elisabetta
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Behavior)
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Let's not stop to think of them, just look and move on.
I dare do all that may become a man.
In its complexity, the world is a monster full of prejudice, corrupted by so-called virtues; it is puritan and fatuous. The secret of life is the art of challenging it. Challenging the world - that should be our aim, instead of living condescending its requests, like we always do.
Lust is the cause of generation.
It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
It horrifies me when a beautiful mind is combined to a repugnant personality.
This compassionate Idiot denies the whole of Life, all thinking and feeling, all that the world and reality mean to others. For him Reality is something entirely different than for them. Their Reality is for him a shadow: For that reason, because he sees and offers a new Reality, he becomes the enemy. [...] He has literally, once and more than once, stood on the magic borderland where everything is affirmed, where not only the remotest thought is true, but also the contrary of such thought. His innocence is not so harmless and men are rightly in awe of him.[...] He does not break the Tables of the Law, he simply turns them round and shows that the contrary to them is written on the other side.
No rule is infallible. There are only mistakes to make.
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a God, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.