
“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.”
Source: 1890s - 1910s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 108: cited by Eugène Tardieu, 'Interview with Paul Gauguin,' in L'Écho de Paris, (13 May 1895)
“We should live two lives in order to understand the world: one as a man and the other as a woman.”
Bisognerebbe vivere due vite per capire il mondo: una come uomo e l’altra come donna.
Referring to his rival Raymond Poincaré, as quoted in Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World (2003) by Margaret MacMillan, p. 33
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
Source: The Passage Trilogy, The Passage (2010)
1920s, Unveiling of Equestrian Statue of Bishop Francis Asbury, (Oct. 15, 1924)