Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
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Yes, but from a jail one is set free, and when from a jail one is set free but has the name of Edmondo Dantes, one revenges oneself.
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Yes, but from a jail one is set free, and when from a jail one is set free but has the name of Edmondo Dantes, one revenges oneself.
When you hold things against each other, you're not in a two-way relationship anymore, but in a three-way: you, me and the worm that has started gnawing away at our story. In matter's obscurity, worms work with discretion, digging tunnels for years and, apart from some minor itchiness, you don't realize anything. Then one day you lay a cup on the table and the wood breaks, collapsing and in a moment, the sturdy surface you knew becomes a pile of soft sawdust.
Definition of a classic: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The meaning of the being of the existent in so far as it reveals itself to consciousness is the phenomenon of being. This meaning has itself a being, based on which it manifests itself.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
As a burglar I was worthless, but as a liar I must confess that I have always been an artist.
When you'll understand yourself you'll understand the world a lot better.
Emotions were wild horses: in the end, you couldn't do anything but free them.
No life can consider itself complete without a dash of madness.
One day, though, the look of a stranger nails you to te wall. A person lightly brushes you and unexpectedly, in a moment, you avert a sensation never felt before in all your life. A feeling that almost scares you, more powerful than your certainties and your values, the same ones you've sustained and for which you've always fought for.