"Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty."

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Source : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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“Songwriting's a weird game.”
“Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.”
“There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
“I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.”
“Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”

Source : "Paladin of the Lost Hour". Novelette by Harlan Ellison, 1985.
“I was in psychological warfare in World War II, so I know psychological warfare when I see it.”
“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.”
“Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?”

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