Quotes About Legacy
É clássico aquilo que persiste como rumor mesmo onde predomina a atualidade mais incompatível.
~ Italo Calvino
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Alte zile decât astea ale noastre nu sunt, pân? o s? intr?m în mormânt,[...]. De mi-o fi dat s? nu le irosesc, s? nu irosesc nimic din ce sunt ?i din ce-a? putea fi!
~ Italo Calvino
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But in essence they had both remained in the era of the Wars of Succession, she with artillery in her head, he with genealogical trees; she who dreamed for us children a rank in an army, it didn't matter which, he who saw us instead married to some grand duchess elector of the empire . . . Despite all this, they were excellent parents, but so distracted that the two of us were left to grow up almost on our own.
~ Italo Calvino
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The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
~ Italo Calvino
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Forse non farò cose importanti, ma la storia è fatta di piccoli gesti anonimi, forse domani morirò, magari prima di quel tedesco, ma tutte le cose che farò prima di morire e la mia morte stessa saranno pezzetti di storia, e tutti i pensieri che sto facendo adesso influiscono sulla mia storia di domani, sulla storia di domani del genere umano.
~ Italo Calvino
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Solo essendo così spietatamente se stesso come fu fino alla morte, poteva dare qualcosa a tutti gli uomini.
~ Italo Calvino
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Io continuavo a guardare lo scheletro, il Padre, il Fratello, l'uguale a me, il Me Stesso; riconoscevo le mie membra spolpate, i miei lineamenti incisi nella roccia, tutto quello che eravamo stati e non eravamo più, la nostra maestà, le nostre colpe, la nostra rovina.
~ Italo Calvino
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Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; others author's names will still be known, but none of their works will survive, as was the case with Socrates; or perhaps, all the surviving books will be attributed to a single, mysterious author, like Homer.
~ Italo Calvino
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Forse non farò cose importanti, ma la storia è fatta di piccoli gesti anonimi, forse domani morirò, [...] ma tutte le cose che farò prima di morire e la mia morte stessa saranno pezzetti di storia, e tutti i pensieri che sto facendo adesso influiscono sulla mia storia di domani, sulla storia di domani del genere umano.
~ Italo Calvino
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L'inno alla vita fatto dal morituro è una cosa molto simpatica per coloro che lo guardano morire ed è anche vero che molti moribondi spendono l'ultimo fiato per dire quella che a loro sembra la causa per cui muoiono, innalzando così un inno alla vita degli altri che sapranno evitare quell'accidente.
~ Italo Svevo
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EVEN WHEN IT STANDS VACANT THE PAST IS NEVER EMPTY.
~ Ivan Doig
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Lascaux and Altamira, that's what I want my work to be like. . . . Something people can look back at, whenever, and get a grasp of our time. Another hundred years from now, or a hundred thousand — the amount of time between shouldn't make any difference. If my pictures are done right, people whenever ought to be able to say, 'Oh, that's what was on their minds then.
~ Ivan Doig
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The past casts a tricky shadow
~ Ivan Doig
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My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.
~ Ivan Reitman
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Govorite mi da ?u izgoriti, da ?e iza mene ostati samo pepeo, ali ?u bar znati da sam bio vatra. A iza vas ?e ostati samo balavi trag.
~ Ivo Andri?
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Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
~ Ivo Andric
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Your ancestral homeland is Queens, fuckface.
~ Unknown
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To be a man, a boy must see a man.
~ Unknown
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Did you read where the great-grandson of Nathan Hale got married this weekend? Give me liberty or give me death. That's what the groom will be saying in about one month.
~ Unknown
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It is not for nothing that the king of a commonwealth is called "Sire"; humanly speaking, of the callings of fatherhood and kingship, the deeper and more primordial is fatherhood.
~ Unknown
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
~ J. C. Watts
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
~ J. C. Watts
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In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
~ J. C. Watts
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Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.
~ J. C. Watts
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