Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

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

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The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect.

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To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

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As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

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