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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“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

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Frank Sinatra stopped his car. The light was red. Pedestrians passed quickly across his windshield but, as usual, one did not. It was a girl in her twenties. She remained at the curb staring at him. Through the corner of his left eye he could see her, and he knew, because it happens almost every day, that she was thinking, It looks like him, but is it?

Just before the light turned green, Sinatra turned toward her, looked directly into her eyes waiting for the reaction he knew would come. It came and he smiled. She smiled and he was gone.”
― Gay Talese

“There is much to be said about a comfortable pair of sneakers and a good book.”
― JC

“A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue

“There's something ugly about the flawless.”
― Dennis Lehane, Sacred

“...
Agosto. Che caldo, che fumo,
Che odore di brace.
Non ci vuole molto a capire
Che è stata una strage,
Non ci vuole molto a capire che niente,
Niente è cambiato
Da quel quarto piano in questura,
Da quella finestra.
Un treno è saltato.
...”
― Claudio Lolli

“Al tempo della sua fondazione non c'era neppure un somaro in tutto il paese; presto però gli Stati Uniti ne furono pieni. Da dove saranno mai vennuti, tutti quei somari?

L'Ultimo Mistero dell'Ereditarietà
cap. 9 "Asini e Cavalli”
― Richard C. Francis, L'ultimo mistero dell'ereditarietà