"Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness."

-- Italo Calvino

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“Let me tell you how to love all equally. Do not demand anything of those you love. If you make demands, some will give you more and some less. In that case you will love more those who give you more and less those who give you less. Thus your love will not be the same for all. You will not be able to love all impartially.”
“Things wonâ€™t go perfect. Itâ€™s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.”
“I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with--our selves, others, and life itself. Openness--the heart's pure, unconditional yes--is love's essence. And warmth is love's basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes--the desire to reach out and touch, connect with, and nourish what we love.”
“But after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes more Irish, and less nice.”
“The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.”
“To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.”
“As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.”

Source : Mohamed ElBaradei (2011). “The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times”, p.187, Macmillan
“I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave”

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