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" WORDS-so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them '' (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

" Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind " (Rudyard Kipling)
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. "


"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. "

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. "

" I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. "

" There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. It's the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

(Oscar Wilde)

" Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. "
" I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. "
" It is only poverty that makes celibacy contemptible. A single woman of good fortune is always respectable.”


(Jane Austen)

I AM William Wallace!
And I see a whole army of my countrymen here in defiance of tyranny. You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What would you do without freedom? Will you fight?
Fight? Against that? No, we will run; and we will live.
Aye, fight and you may die. Run and you'll live -- at least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... our freedom!
Alba gu bra!
[Braveheart (1995), The Battle of Stirling ~ William Wallace Speech]



«I keep a band of music in my ante-room,» […] «It has orders to play without stopping; it renders me two excellent services. It keeps the sounds of the world from reaching the private apartments, and it makes the world think that dancing’s going on within.»
Ralph Touchett from Henry James’ The Portrait of A Lady

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
P.B. Shelley

“-Where also is he, who gone has made this quite, quite another earth from that which it was? - There might be something sunny about me them, now I am truly cold moonshine”
Mary Shelley - 21st October 1822

“My mind is not active any longer,” answered Miriam, in a cold, indifferent tone. “It deals with one thought and no more. One recollection paralyzes it. It is not remorse; do not think it! I put myself out of the question, and feel neither regret nor penitence on my own behalf. But what benumbs me, what robs me of all power,-it is no secret for a woman to tell a man, yet I care not though you know it, —is the certainty that I am, and must ever be, an object of horror in Donatello’s sight.”
[Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Marble Faun]


What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career - the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are the only reason I am. You are all my reasons. Thank you.
[A Beautiful Mind]

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction
Salvador Dalì

Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night...

—Romeo and Juliet Act III scene ii

«Non piangere per me/Sappi che muoio/Non puoi aiutarmi/Ma guarda quel fiore/quello che appassisce ti dico/Annaffialo».
Oriana Fallaci

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.