Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa quotes
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“Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”
-- Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaSource : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books
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“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 worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.”
-- Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaSource : Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House
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“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
-- Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaSource : The Leopard ch. 1 (1957) (translation by Archibald Colquhoun)
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“A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.”
-- Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaSource : "The Leopard" translated by Archibald Colquhoun, London: Fontana, (p. 128), 1963.
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“To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.”
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“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?”
-- Giuseppe Tomasi di LampedusaSource : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books
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“If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.”
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“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.”
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“In love one had need of being believed, in friendship of being understood.”
Source : Abel Bonnard (1933). “The Art of Friendship”
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Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.17, Lulu.com
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“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
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Source : "'Farewell, readers': Alan Rusbridger on leaving the Guardian after two decades at the helm". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2015.
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Source : Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.
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“Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.”
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