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, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.
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…
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,…
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.
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.
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