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“Ma le fontane, discorrendo tra loro nella notte quieta, dicevano che Marina era passata come Cecilia, il conte Cesare come i suoi avi, che nuovi signori verrebbero per passare alla loro volta e non valeva la pena di turbarsene. Quando, presso l’alba, uscì la luna e si posò sul pavimento della loggia, sulla pompa delle dracene e delle azalee che nessuno aveva pensato a rimuovere, ella parve cercar là dentro, col suo sorriso voluttuoso, ciò che non si trovava ancora, quella notte, nel Palazzo, ma che la vicenda delle cose umane vi ha quindi portato: degli altri occhi da empir di chimere, degli altri cuori da muovere alla passione, invece di quelli che se n’erano appena liberati per sempre.”

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Author:Fogazzaro Antonio
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“In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I don't mean it as a term of praise: these cabinets of curiousities contained specific sorts of objects - maps, skulls (as memento mori), works of art, stuffed animals, natural history samples, and books - and Open City actually contains many of the same sort of objects. So, I don't think it's as simple as literary inclusiveness.”

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Author:Teju Cole
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“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.”

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Author:Francis Bacon
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“We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of our Conscience.”

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Book:The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the Book of Psalms, a Collection of Illustrative Extracts from the Whole Range of Literature, a Series of Homiletical Hints Upon Almost Every Verse, and Lists of Writers Upon Each Psalm. Ps. 1-26. I
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“I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.”

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Author:Vince Lombardi
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“Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy
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“It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. ... All photographs are memento mori. To take photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt”

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Author:Susan Sontag
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