“One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!”
Source: A Room with a View
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E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist
Letter 216, to Florence Barger, 11 February 1922
Selected Letters (1983-1985)
Lynn Margulis (1938–2011) American evolutionary biologist
as quoted by Andre Khalil in "As Above, So Below," Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel ed. Dorion Sagan (2012).
“Life is one long training session in preparation for what will come.”
Paulo Coelho book Aleph
Life and death lose their meaning; there are only challenges to be met with joy and overcome with tranquility.
Aleph (2011)
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.”
John Cheever (1912–1982) American novelist and short story writer
Accepting Edward MacDowell Medal (September 8, 1979).
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Vittoria Colonna
Vittoria Colonna.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
