"Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether."

-- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

#Short Life Quotes #Passion Quotes #Self Quotes

“Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait.”
“It happens the world over - we love ourselves more than we do the one we say we love. We all want to be Number One, we've got to be Number One or nothing! We can't see that we could make ourselves loved and needed in the Number Two, or Three, or Four spot. No sir, we've got to be Number One, and if we can't make it, we'll rip and tear at the loved one till we've ruined every smidgin of love that was ever there.”

Source : Irene Hunt (2005). “Up a Road Slowly”, p.29, Penguin
“Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC [Project for the New American Century] Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by George [W.] Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11.”

Source : "Cindy Sheehan's Sinister Piffle". www.slate.com. August 15, 2005.
“I didn't know," I start truthfully, "that it was the hard way when I started on it.”
“The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things”
“Ideals survive through change. They die through inertia in the face of challenge.”
“I feel like women, especially in music, aren't really given as much respect as men. Sexism really exists.”
“One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.”

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