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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Trovo la televisione molto educativa. Ogni volta che qualcuno la accende, vado in biblioteca e leggo un buon libro.”
― Groucho Marx

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together."
Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me.
Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“The road to hell is paved with unbought stuffed animals”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Sempre c’è un domani
e la vita ci dà un’altra possibilità per fare le cose bene,
ma se mi sbagliassi
e oggi fosse tutto ciò che ci rimane,
mi piacerebbe dirti quanto ti amo,
che mai ti dimenticherò.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?
Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feet
deep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the long
night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children
are born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt and
hungry, and the white walkers move through the woods”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”
― William Bliss

“The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats.
Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree

“Each October I walk into the woods
looking for bones: rabbit skulls,
a grackle spine, the pelvis of a deer
with the blood bleached out. What died
in the lush of roses and mint
shines out from the tangle of twigs
that bind it to the place
of its last leaping. The living lack
that kind of clarity. In late April,
when the water spreads out and out
till everything is lilies and seepage,
there is only the mystery of tracks,
a rustle receding in the many reeds.
And so the bones accumulate
across my windowsill: the flightless
wings and exaggerated grins,
the silent unmoving reminders
of where the glories of April lead.”
― Charles Rafferty, Where the Glories of April Lead

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul... but I must confess that I love you only because you are a prelude to my beloved October.”
― Peggy Toney Horton

“Anne reveled in the world of color about her.

"Oh, Marilla," she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, "I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it? Look at these maple branches. Don't they give you a thrill--several thrills?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Knowledge is high in the head, but the salmon of wisdom swims deep”
― Neil Gunn

“Io dissi: "Siamo ribelli Lelio?" e Lelio disse: "Mai abbastanza".”
― Luigi Meneghello, I piccoli maestri

“Al mio paese, gli uomini cattolici bestemmiavano spesso, gli altri sempre.”
― Luigi Meneghello, I piccoli maestri

“È giusto fare i conti con se stessi, ma a un certo punto bisogna chiuderli.”
― Luigi Meneghello, I piccoli maestri

“Il Finco criticò Dio sottovoce.”
― Luigi Meneghello, I piccoli maestri

“Le forme vere della natura sono forme della coscienza. Di queste cose si è sentito parlare nelle storie letterarie, ma quando si sperimentano di persona paiono nuove, e solo in seguito, riflettendoci, si vede che sono le stesse. Lassù, per la prima volta in vita nostra, ci siamo sentiti veramente liberi, e quel paesaggio s’è associato per sempre con la nostra idea di libertà.”
― Luigi Meneghello, I piccoli maestri

“...sentivo bensì un po' di vergogna in termini generali, perché quella si sente sempre, e in particolare alla fine di una guerra in cui non si è nemmeno morti.”
― Luigi Meneghello, I piccoli maestri

“La gente non sapeva ancora bene come assestarsi di nuovo in una vita normale: le famiglie erano ancora centrate sulle donne, oltre che sui vecchi e sui bambini: gli uomini giovani, tornati appena, parevano un po' in prestito.”
― Luigi Meneghello, I piccoli maestri

“Parcè?”
― Francesco Tami