Scuola Vecchia Quotes & Sayings

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you. — Paulo Coelho

I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit. — L.M. Montgomery

According to Dieter Hellfeld, a member of the Swedish Academy — Roberto Bolano

It is because these characters depend to such a high degree on their own sense of integrity that for them, victory has nothing to do with happiness. It has more to do with a settling within oneself, a movement inward that makes them whole. Their reward is not happiness - a word that is central in Austen's novels but is seldom used in James's universe. What James's characters gain is self-respect. — Azar Nafisi

Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. — Harry S. Truman