Never come back either to take a run.
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Never come back either to take a run.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness.(from "Zeno's Conscience")
You hate me... out of spite and I love you all!
I don't miss my own past. I miss the past overall: the sixties of Kerouak, the twenties in Paris of the Lost Generation, 1890 of Dead Man, 1904 of Barrie. I don't make movies to see a new place, but a different period.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
When you men talk of something, do you have to always say: it is folly, it is wise, it is good, it is bad! But what does this mean? Have you, who talk this way, investigated the internal movements of an action? Do you know how to understand with certainty the causes, and understand why that happened and why it had to happen? If you had done so you would be less ready to judge.
Otium slows down the hours and makes the years go by faster.
There are men who would pay to be bribed.