"Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers."

-- C.P. Cavafy

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“We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.”
“I should like to make myself free to all who care to attend my lectures.”
“Re-forming after the chaos,â€ I said, remembering Raquelâ€™s words. â€œChoosing what weâ€™ll do with how things are now, who weâ€™ll be in this new world where the only magic left is what we make ourselves.”
“There are three way of courting ruin -- women, gambling, and calling in technicians.”
“Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.”
“And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.”
“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.”
“I know I have to stop. We all have to stop. Funny how knowing something's a bad idea doesn't make a difference.”

Source : Sara Ryan (2009). “Rules for Hearts”, p.94, Penguin

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