“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
“War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free.” Heraclitus of Ephesus
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Mark Twain
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the masses, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” Marcus Aurelius
“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.” Ayn Rand
“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose” Janis Joplin, Me & Bobby McGee
“When you pray, what do you say to God?””I don’t say anything, I listen”. – “Well okay … when God speaks to you, then, what does he say?” “He doesn’t say anything. He listens.” From an interview to Mother Teresa
“The cosmos is a stage and life is a passage on the set of this stage: you enter, you look and you exit.” Democritus
A really absurd and kitsch mix of Rolling Stones and Mozart (!), but in the meanwhile an unbelievable vocal performance! Worth a look!
Beside the Gobbi’s fantastic performance, think about the shocking effect on XIX public from verses as “E credo l’uom gioco d’iniqua sorte, dal germe della culla al verme dell’avel.” (And I believe that man is the toy of treacherous fate, from the seed in the cradle to the worms of the grave.) No doubt, the […]
