"Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our real life will begin. And so life passes by."

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Source : "The Abruzzo Trilogy".

Ignazio Silone

#Real Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”

Source : The Leopard ch. 1 (1957) (translation by Archibald Colquhoun)
“Love is always open arms.”
“I would like to have people hear dissonance, but I don't want it to be so off-putting that they never get there to begin with. That's actually how I hear it; that's what's pleasant to me. I don't like dense, chaotic dissonance. My brain gets lost. I need something to hang onto.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Can I wear your blazer?”
“It was overwhelmingly beautiful to see my music performed.”
“Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.”
“Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.”

Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character”

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