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!’”
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