"The fancies of wine are authentic events."

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Source : Italo Svevo (2015). “Zeno's Conscience”, p.231, Vintage

Italo Svevo

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“Great hopes make everything great possible”
“I just want to scream: "I'm being honest, I swear!" Maybe it's embarrassing, but I don't care anymore.”

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“The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
“We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things â€” and above all on ourselves.”
“My fans freak out and think I'm never going to race again. And I don't want them to do that because I want them to be there to pull for me in the truck series next year.”
“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.”
“Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.”

Source : Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]
“Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.”

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