Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.
from the book "" by Primo Levi
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I, who wasn't able to descend this boat, to save myself I descended from my life. Step after step. And every step was a wish. For every step I took, a wish I was saying goodbye to.
I'm not mad, brother. We're not mad when we find a way of saving each other. We're cunning like hungry animals. Madness has nothing to do with it. That's genius. It's geometry. Perfection. Wishes were tearing my soul apart. I could live them, but I didn't manage.
So I enchanted them. And one by one I left them behind me. Geometry. A perfect job.
from the book "Novecento: pianist" by Alessandro Baricco
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The other day they asked me to leave on of their places of worship as I was wearing a sleeveless dress - she explained sadly.
Apparently the Almighty doesn't like my arms even if he created them.
Written on wednesday november 16, 2011
from the book "" by Agatha Christie
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There are two ways of looking at someone's face. One is looking at their eyes as a part of it. The other is looking at the eyes only, as if they were the face. It's one of those things that intimidate when you do them. Because the eyes are a miniature of life. White around, like the nothingness in which life drifts, the coloured iris, like the unpredictable variety that portrays it, until diving into the black of the pupil that swallows everything, like a dark well without colour and without bottom. And that's where I plunged looking at Silvia that way, in the deep ocean of her life, entering inside and letting her enter mine: the eyes but I couldn't stand the look. Silvia could.
Written on saturday october 29, 2011
from the book "" by Alessandro D'Avenia
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You must put up with caterpillars if you want to see butterflies... They say they're so lovely!
Written on friday september 9, 2011
from the book "The Little Prince" by Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry
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You don't find the truth, she finds you.
from the book "" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Tear the beauty to the world, everywhere it is and give it to who you it is nearby: that's why I'm here.
from the book "" by Alessandro D'Avenia
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One doesn't know what thirst is until one drinks for the first time.
from the book "" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
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To save you, I may kneel before others, or become someone's slave. Even if I must become the king of destruction, and raise to the ground the Universe, for you I would do it without regret. Even the blood... of all the living creatures put together, are not worth a drop of yours.
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I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind! But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
from the book "" by Jane Austen