Fausto Cercignani: Doing

Fausto Cercignani is Italian scholar, essayist and poet. Explore interesting quotes on doing.
Fausto Cercignani: 130 quotes1 like

“If you persevere in your rancor, you do nothing but keep feeding yourself on poison.”

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“Titles are like clothes: they do not make the man.”

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“Do not confuse fantasy with imagination: the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.”

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“If you despise habits so much, it is because you do not realize that nobody can do without them.”

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“When one must fight, one had better do it without hesitation, according to his own nature.”

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“They do not speak of boundless skies,
of passing loves like silver clouds.
They speak of cheerless towns, unwound:
on hazy moors of muffled music.”

Fausto Cercignani

Adagio (2004)
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