Athanasius Kircher. Mundus Subterraneus. 1665.


To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
—  Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe







"Pensar es fácil. Actuar es difícil. Pero la cosa más difícil del mundo es la de actuar de acuerdo con su forma de pensar ".


  “Never was anything great achieved without danger.”
—      Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince




Ruefully he would explain to Pombal or to myself: ‘I cannot understand it. Before my love has a chance to crystallize, it turns into a deep, a devouring friendship. These devotions are not for you womanizers, you wouldn’t understand. But once this happens, passion flies out of the window. Friendship consumes us, paralyses us. Another sort of love begins. What is it? I don’t know. A tenderness, a tendresse, something melting. Fondante.’ Tears come into his eyes. ‘I am really a woman’s man and women love me. But —’ shaking his handsome head and blowing the smoke from his cigarette upwards to the ceiling he adds smiling, but without self-pity, ‘ I alone among men can say that while all women love me no one woman ever has. Not properly. I am as innocent of love (not sexual love, of course) as a virgin. Poor Amaril!’
—  Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar




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