9 quotes found
“I suppose longevity requires giving up life's pleasures, one by one, until there's nothing left.”
“To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference.”
“Thank heaven for people who are satisfied with facts that conform to the reality they wish to believe.”
“The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.”
“Tears streamed down her wrinkled face. This world that she had longed to change for the better was as bad as the one into which she had been born. "An exercise in futility," she murmured.”
“At the Uffizi, I experienced a moment that was touching, painful, and almost embarrassing. We stopped in front of the famous Botticelli painting, The Birth of Venus. I gazed wistfully at her incomp...”
“Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographers plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of a portfolio: a ...”
“The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray, drizzly skies, congested streets, the soot-belching boats and barges chugging up and d...”
