It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of li...
Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
Every man must settle down once in a lifetime.
Loneliness is a kind of prison.[Vincent Van Gogh]
Erezia unei generații este ortodoxia generației următoare.
Money makes the man a beast.
Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
Toată marea literatură are un caracter universal. Altfel piere.
Only suffering grows big artists.
From this vantage point he came to a realization that everything that had happened to him before this had been a journey upward through time, everything that occurred after it a descent. If he could n...
Alla guerra di amor vince chi fugge.
Știința este arta de a crea iluzii acceptabile.
Religion will never show the way.
Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful.
Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.
Art destroys the life.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
Lorenzo il Magnifico, the Plato Four, the humanists had taught him that man was the center of the universe; and this was never more demonstrable that when he stood looking upward and found himself, a...
I was thinking that Rembrandt would have like to paint you.