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Geniality starts where madness ends!

The vast majority of the intellectual part of humanity has never been anything more than a gathering of pedants

The greatest liberty one can achieve is to be able to chose one's own master!

After speaking to certain people I get the certainty that I had temporarily suffered of the Eliza effect during the conversation

In order to adopt and apply the current prescribed formulas for happiness one has to acquire a great deal of idiocy

Writing a book is very much like having a dream, only usually it implies more sweat and sorrow

Wives usually have the same political views as their husbands. Only the very brave ones dare contradict them. Lovers have the same political views or not, but they never seem to contradict each other either way.

Never teach people to think, teach them to memorize the names of others and their deeds, thus ensuring the continuity of intellectual enslavement and the ever-lasting canonical icons.
Power to the canon!

There is never hope for the hopeless or tranquility for the restless

Cats are those beings that teach us how to gracefully refuse domination even when it is inevitable

Humanity eternally lives in the era when it knows everything but has no clue of anything

We all have our interior world, but some remain trapped in it

Slaves don't have a choice, somebody else makes it for them

In a vulgar world were everybody seems to run after money, Scheherazade has stopped telling her stories and died of loneliness

These are the times in which the desire to know something about anything is taken for pedantry, showing common sense stands for being stupid and being different equals to being a prudish snob.
I wish at least some of us would have the pleasure to be regarded also as lunatics!

People keep on saying: "Think outside of the box!"
I wish they would also have the courtesy to indicate which of the damn boxes they're referring to!

In Love shared madness feels like Paradise, one-way madness leads to Hell, and uncertainty is Purgatory

You never can say if one is a gentleman until you have told him "I love you!"

Morality is the most vivid expression of the perverseness and hypocrisy of the human soul!

A good book should never aim at being moral; it should however present higher, immovable, universal values!

I don't like many people, but the ones I like are my favorite!

There are many Judas among us! Do not feel surprised - you've been sold many a time for a few coins!

When you've stopped being impressed by love, you've stopped being alive! When you've started to find love ridiculous, you've started to be a clown!

From afar many things seem simple, but when they become personal simplicity vanishes!

In these times we have more labels and categories than ideas and feelings!

The artist will attempt, through his work, to break the human laws,
The small minds, via theory, will re-put such attempt within the boundaries!

Reading should open one's mind, not close it behind the limitations imposed by other people's thoughts!

My life is an ongoing project - I dare you to take part in it!

Knowledge is limited, curiosity not - and this is why progress is possible.

Home is where your love takes you!

No matter how absurd a principle might seem, it is perfectly valid as long as you follow it with obstinance!

So it goes with miracles: - besides the fact that they do not exist, they don't even last long!

Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas - the Universe is but God's supreme vanity!

What is there of the body?
----- flesh and blood ------
What is there of the mind and soul?
----------- infinity ---------------

Each moment knows its own eternity

Few people are capable of thinking - the vast majority only combines pre-established mental schemes in obtaining more or less predictable results!

Love is an inner construction that springs out of the struggle between personal needs and social determinations

Without the aid of language the human being is left to wallow in a mire of feelings he can neither grasp nor control

So many people are victims to who they think they are, when in fact so very few people know exactly whom they want to be!

The ones that do not risk, never lose, they only gain – in frustration!

You want to terminate with Romeo & Juliet? Let them get married and have children!
You want to terminate with a rebel? Give him a steady job and the possibility of a mortgage!

People are so preoccupied in arranging as best their lives that they forget to live it, in the end!

The heart will choose its own language and leave us speechless at times.

My life is all about magic surrealism – life comes with the surrealism, I put in the magic!

Making love just for the carnal part is like drinking wine just for its alcohol

Valuable writers try to transmit ideas and feelings
      – people read and get stuck in the beauty of the form
Mercenary writers try to impress through form
      – people read and try to gather ideas and feelings.