People are wrong when they say that opera isn't what it used to be. She is what she always was - and that's the problem.
I planted rose bushes in the garden of my heart. I picked roses, in the garden of my illusion!
Serejinha
The only intellectual attitude worthy of a superior creature is that of a calm and cold compassion for everything that is not himself. Not that this attitude has the slightest...
Fernando Pessoa
With envy and jealousy, there is no calm or rest for those who are attacked by this evil: the objects of their greed, their hatred, their spite, rise up in the day...
Allan Kardec
Dying, my dear doctor, is the last thing I will do!
Unknown
I only wish for tranquility and rest, which are the goods that the most powerful kings on earth cannot grant to those who cannot take them for their own...
René Descartes