Fernando Sabino famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.
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Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.
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Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried.
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It did not take long to conclude that, without God, would never come to understand where the universe began and where it ended, where it came from him, where he would go
-- Fernando Sabino
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
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Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.
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I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.
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Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
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We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
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Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.
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Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
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There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.
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