“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950
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“A luxury of deep repose! the heart
Must surely beat in quiet here.”
The London Literary Gazette, 1824
“I cannot afford the luxury of sentiment, mine must be cold logic.”
Quoted from George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
From the preface to the 2002 Knopf Edition
The End of the American Era (2002)
Context: As a matter of urgency, America needs to begin to prepare itself and the rest of the world for this uncertain future. To wait until American dominance is already gone would be to squander the enormous opportunity that comes with primacy. America must devise a grand strategy for the transition to a world of multiple power centers now, while it still has the luxury of doing so. This is the central challenge of The End of the American Era.
“Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.”
April 14, 1778
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
“It is a luxury to be understood.”
“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”