As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?
To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not. - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.
- Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty. - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.
As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his ow… - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his ow…
A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in. - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change. - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but wors… - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but wors…
Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged,… - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged,…
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