No man is rich enough to buy back his past - Oscar Wilde
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past - Oscar Wilde
Diotallevi was at the door of his room, pointedly tolerant.
Diotalleve's tolerance was always exasperating, but Belbo didn't seem to mind it. He tolerated it. - Umberto Eco
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. ~ Alfred Korzybski
"I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
- Sylvia Plath
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” - Voltaire
I am somewhat sad about Voltaire. He was such a good thinker, but often he had circumstantial antisemitic fibs. I really like the one you now carry around by Goethe.
People are bound to pardon a wild, profane, godless man, if saints have never flourished in their area. Hound of the Baskervilles
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you live in fear, this is not for you. But assuming you have no fear, has His Grace given you good morals? I am asking this because no fear with no morals is the most accurate definition of a criminal. ~ C A Cafolini
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." - Thoreau
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire." - François de La Rochefoucauld
"The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach." Rimbaud
"There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze."
— Charles Baudelaire
"The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way."
— Charles Baudelaire (Les Fleurs Du Mal)
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about" O.Wilde
Our life is made by the death of others - Leonardo da Vinci
Does anyone know why Leonardo said that and what he meant by it?
Well, in a literal sense he was a scientist and, science often gives theories about how you cannot have life without death. That would be my literal guess.
"The darkest places in hell rest for those who maintain there neutrality in times of crisis" - Dante
I am not a believer in the hell and, heaven theories and Ideals but, I don't think you have to be to understand this quote.
It's a very good possibility whence you wrap you're mind around it.