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  • As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

    Mean   Done   World  
    Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books
  • All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

    Thinking   Sheep   Two  
    Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House
  • Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

    Love   Flames   Years  
    Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books
  • If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

    Change   Want   Ifs  
  • Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.

  • To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.

    Rage   Mock   Gentlemanly  
  • If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

    Change   Book   Want  
    The Leopard ch. 1 (1957) (translation by Archibald Colquhoun)
  • A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

    "The Leopard" translated by Archibald Colquhoun, London: Fontana, (p. 128), 1963.
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