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“once you have tasted the taste of sky, you will forever look up”

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose works and ideas had a profound influence on the world. He was a renowned painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist, musician, and engineer. more

“My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.”

Ends Dies Waiting Hours Memories Sun Minutes Wounds Lifts Unhappiness Racing Scar Sugar Fades Fade Away Dripping Hurrying Sun Set

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.”

Existence Solutions Elsewhere Imaginary Surrealism Surrealist

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“The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.”

Way Mind Seems Habit Granted Habits Of Mind Took For Granted

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.”

Important Odd Diaries Odd Things

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.”

Want Father Expectations Daughter Notion Conform

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.”

Ifs Should Self Seems Natural Unique Extraordinary Oneself Vain Obsessed Self Obsessed

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

“My worst mistake has been not grasping that time goes by. It was going by and there I was, set in the attitude of the ideal wife of an ideal husband. Instead of bringing our sexual relationship to life again I brooded happily over memories of our former nights together.”

Has Beens Together Night Memories Mistake Attitude Wife Worst Husband Ideals Former Grasping Time Goes By Ideal Husband

Book:The Woman Destroyed

Source: The Woman Destroyed

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