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

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Source : The Leopard ch. 1 (1957) (translation by Archibald Colquhoun)

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
“The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.”
“I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.”
“1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.”
“[I]t must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight.”
“He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!”
“Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"â€”"not permitted"â€”"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers”
“If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.”

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