“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”
Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
As quoted in Vietnam Past and Present: The North, ed. Andrew Forbes and David Henley (Cognoscenti Books, 2012)
a remark to Roberto Longhi, in 1964; as quoted in 'Morandi 1894 – 1964', published by Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, ed: M. C. Bandera & R. Miracco - 2008; p. 338
1945 - 1964
“Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
Oceana, or, England and Her Colonies (1886) [C. Scribner's Sons, 1972, 396 pages], p. 67
Context: Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
solis usuris ditentur
Source: On the Governance of the Jews (c. 1263–1265) art. 2
“There would be no chance to get to know death at all… if it happened only once.”
