#era

Quello ch'io avrei voluto era morire in mezzo a estranei, sotto un cielo sgombro di nuvole. E nondimeno il mio desiderio differiva dai sentimenti dell'antico greco che ambiva morire nel Sole brillante. Quello ch'io avrei voluto era un suicidio natural, spontaneo; una morte simile a quella del volpacchiotto, non ancora ben pratico di astuzie, che va errando sbadatamente su un viottolo montano ed è colpito dal cacciatore a causa della sua stupidità. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#nature

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#baseball #baseball game #clock #explained #football

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#always #because #despised #european #every

I assure Romanians that once I return... I will try and generate a sentiment of reconciliation in society. Divisions in society must be stopped, they must be annihilated, because Romania needs all its energy to... integrate into the civilized world. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#assure #because #civilized #civilized world #divisions

There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#camera #completely #conversation #could #go

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about? ↗

— Beck

#experience #firsthand #how #intolerant #judgment

Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#everyone #exists #horrible #horrible things #liberating

I don't mind paying the taxes I pay, which is pretty considerable. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#i #mind #pay #paying #pretty

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#general #general rule #himself #little #makes

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#antiquated #art #art form #attract #created