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Giacomo Leopardi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again --”
“For if life, once empty of attachments and sweet illusions, is a starless winter night, still it’s enough for me of mortal fate and comfort and revenge that I can lie here lazy, lifeless on the grass, watching the sea and earth and sky, and smile.”
“All is mystery except our pain.”
“So, ignorant of man and of the age that he calls ancient, and of the descendants following their ancestors, nature stays evergreen; indeed she travels such a long road she might as well be standing still. Meanwhile kingdoms fall, languages and peoples die; she doesn’t see. Yet man takes it upon himself to praise eternity.”
“Fate gave birth at one and the same time to two siblings, Love and Death.”
“But he’s a fool who doesn’t see how swift the wings of youth are, and how near the cradle lies to the grave.”
“The certain, lonely knowledge [120] that everything is vain but grief.”
“Man is born by labor, [40] and birth itself means risking death.”
“So my mind sinks in this immensity: And foundering is sweet in such a sea".”
“But you were born to gentle dreams,”
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