“Men were born to die! Life has only one purpose: to understand the sense of your own misery.”

— Menotti Lerro

Donna Giovanna, Act IV, scene iii.

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Menotti Lerro 35

Italian poet 1980

Luiz Carlos Alborghetti (1945–2009) Italian-Brazilian radio commenter, showman and political figure

Original: (pt) Existem três coisas que você só faz uma vez na vida: nascer, morrer e votar no PT!

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“Your dæmon can only live its full life in the world it was born in. Elsewhere it will eventually sicken and die.”

Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 26 : The Abyss
Context: Your dæmon can only live its full life in the world it was born in. Elsewhere it will eventually sicken and die. We can travel, if there are openings into other worlds, but we can only live in our own. Lord Asriel’s great enterprise will fail in the end for the same reason: we have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

“One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die.”

Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867) American writer

Marco Bozzaris.

“I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

This has sometimes been paraphrased: "The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 15.