I’m always amazed at myself. And the only onesomething that makes life worth living.
There are moments when one is in the need to choose between living one’s full, whole, complete life, or dragging a false, shameful, degrading existence as the world, in its great hypocrisy, asks it.
Life is too short to waste it realizing the dreams of others.
Loving yourself is the beginning of an idyll that lasts a lifetime.
The waste of life lies in the love that has not been able to give, in the power that it has not been able to use, in the egoistic prudence that has prevented us from risking and that, avoiding a regret, has made us lack happiness.
The bond of every relationship, both in marriage and in friendship, lies in the conversation.
Anyone can sympathize with the pain of a friend, but only a noble soul can sympathize with a friend’s success.
Friendship is more tragic than love because it lasts longer.
Beauty cannot be questioned: it reigns by divine right.
Beauty is the only thing against which the force of time is vain. What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, and is a possession for all eternity.”
The Beauty is a form of the Genius, indeed, it is higher than the Genius because it does not need explanations. It is one of the great facts of the world, like the sunlight, the spring, the reflection in the dark water of that shell of silver we call moon.
It seems to me that we all look too much at Nature and live too little with it.
He who turns to look at his past does not deserve to have a future ahead of him.
The only charm of the past is the fact that it has passed.
Experience is the most difficult kind of teacher. First you take the exam, then explain the lesson to you.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.
Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
I don’t want to erase my past, because for better or for worse it made me what I am today. In fact I thank those who made me discover love and pain, those who loved me and used me, who told me I want you good believing and those who did it only because of his comfortable filth. I thank myself for having always found the strength to get up and go on, always. ”
One can have only one great experience in life, at best, the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
I’m not at all cynical, I only have some experience, which is almost the same.”
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
What the art tries to destroy is the monotony of the type, the slavery of fashion, the tyranny of habits, and the lowering of man to the level of the machine.
To be happy you should live. But living is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist and nothing more.
In this world there are only two tragedies: one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it. This second and the worst, the real tragedy.
Happiness is not what you want, but you want what you have.
Nothing is more necessary than the superfluous.
A cigarette and the perfect prototype of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite and leaves unsatisfied. What more could you want?
I can resist anything but temptations.
The only way to get rid of temptation and surrender.
To test the reality we have to see it on the circus rope. When the truths become acrobats, then we can judge them.
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
The true things of life are not studied, they are learned, but they meet.
Little sincerity and danger and much and absolutely fatal.
Very beautiful site!
Thank you Matteo!