For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade read more

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow.

Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow.

The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good read more

The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life read more

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
[It., Spesso e da forte,
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Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
[It., Spesso e da forte,
Piu che il morire, il vivere.]

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in read more

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.