Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?""I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."- Conversation between Majid and Mathias Riccardo Bruni
Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.
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Roy T. Bennett
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.
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Roy T. Bennett
And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
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Ruskin Bond
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid...
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Riccardo Bruni
But that day it was raining, and since they couldn't very well sit on the rooftop in the rain to watch the flotilla parade, they stayed in the little room that led to the roof. It had just one tiny window through which the gray...
Moses Luzzatto always said to be patient during the hard times, that they would have to endure and make sacrifices while they waited for better times to come. He urged Simone and the other Jewish boys not to provoke the Venetians, saying they should remain...
You live in a damnably twisted and convoluted world, " replied Mathias. "And you are trampling accross it with all the delicacy of an elephant in a glass shop! " -Conversation between Mathias Munster and Giacomo Foscarini
Aboard the gondola, Giacomo Foscarini sat facing Mathias. They were crossing the Canal Grande, then they would navigate around San Marco and return. Foscarini loved to travel around Venice this way. They stopped briefly at a mooring near the bridge to the Rialto, and Foscarini...
Will there ever come a day when you put yourself first?"" No, that day will never come."" You're crazy, my old man."" It will never come because I've finally realized that I want you by my side, now and forever. That I can no longer...
