“We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of... Read more
“Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one... Read more
“Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you’ve lost that, you’ve lost everything.” ― Simone de... Read more
“Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.” ― André Gide, The Immoralist Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature... Read more
“In life there are certain sores that, like a canker, gnaw at the soul in solitude and diminish it.” ― Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl An opium-induced nightmare featuring... Read more
This Italian classic of historical fiction tells of the slow decay of an aristocratic Sicilian family of the 19th century. The patriarch, Don Fabrizio, is the protagonist and tragic hero... Read more
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant... Read more
“There was a language in the world that everyone understood, a language the boy had used throughout the time that he was trying to improve things at the shop. It... Read more
“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise... Read more
“We have in past been forced into reluctant change by weather, calamity, and plague. Now the pressure comes from our biologic success as a species. We have overcome all enemies... Read more
