"What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear."

-- Edith Sitwell

#Regret Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Special Quotes

“Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.”
“I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.”
“The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930s were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.”
“Where do ideas come from? Ideas come from other ideas.”
“Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.”
“Without stones there is no arch”

Source : "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, 1972.
“There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!”
“The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.”

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