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Top 25 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quotes (2024 Update)

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”

1. “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “L’amore. Certo, l’amore. Fuoco e fiamme per un anno, cenere per trenta.”

2. “L’amore. Certo, l’amore. Fuoco e fiamme per un anno, cenere per trenta.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

3. “Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “They are coming to teach us good manners!” I replied in English. “But they won’t succeed, because we are gods.”

4. “They are coming to teach us good manners!” I replied in English. “But they won’t succeed, because we are gods.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?”

5. “As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.”

6. “To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “We’re not blind, we’re just human. We live in a changing reality to which we try to adapt ourselves like seaweed bending under the pressure of water.”

7. “We’re not blind, we’re just human. We live in a changing reality to which we try to adapt ourselves like seaweed bending under the pressure of water.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “In Sicily it doesn’t matter whether things are done well or done badly; the sin which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of ‘doing’ at all.”

8. “In Sicily it doesn’t matter whether things are done well or done badly; the sin which we Sicilians never forgive is simply that of ‘doing’ at all.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.”

9. “A man of forty-five can consider himself still young till the moment comes when he realises that he has children old enough to fall in love.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Ovid tells us, in his Metamorphoses, that the young girls who were gathering flowers with Proserpina that fatal day were turned into the Sirens – the bird-bodied golden-feathered singers with female faces of the Homeric tradition – and then went wandering about over land and sea, crying out in search of their vanished playmate.”

10. “Ovid tells us, in his Metamorphoses, that the young girls who were gathering flowers with Proserpina that fatal day were turned into the Sirens – the bird-bodied golden-feathered singers with female faces of the Homeric tradition – and then went wandering about over land and sea, crying out in search of their vanished playmate.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing a hankering for death; our laziness, our spiced and drugged sherbets, a hankering for voluptuous immobility, that is, for death again; our meditative air is that of a void wanting to scrutinize the enigmas of nirvana.”

11. “All Sicilian expression, even the most violent, is really wish fulfillment: our sensuality is a hankering for oblivion, our shooting and knifing a hankering for death; our laziness, our spiced and drugged sherbets, a hankering for voluptuous immobility, that is, for death again; our meditative air is that of a void wanting to scrutinize the enigmas of nirvana.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Kings who personify an idea should not, cannot, fall below a certain level for generations; if they do, the idea suffers too.”

12. “Kings who personify an idea should not, cannot, fall below a certain level for generations; if they do, the idea suffers too.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “A house of which one knew every room wasn’t worth living in.”

13. “A house of which one knew every room wasn’t worth living in.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Death, oh yes, it existed of course, but it was something that happened to others. The thought occurred to Don Fabrizio that it was ignorance of this supreme consolation that made the young feel sorrows much more sharply than the old; the latter are nearer the safety exit.”

14. “Death, oh yes, it existed of course, but it was something that happened to others. The thought occurred to Don Fabrizio that it was ignorance of this supreme consolation that made the young feel sorrows much more sharply than the old; the latter are nearer the safety exit.”

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Why, he wondered, did God not want anyone to die with their own face on?”

15. “Why, he wondered, did God not want anyone to die with their own face on?”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Now the road was crossing orange groves in flower, and the nuptial scent of the blossoms absorbed the rest as a full moon does a landscape; the smell of sweating horses, the smell of leather from the carriage upholstery, the smell of Prince and the smell of Jesuit, were all cancelled out by that Islamic perfume evoking houris and fleshly joys beyond the grave.”

16. “Now the road was crossing orange groves in flower, and the nuptial scent of the blossoms absorbed the rest as a full moon does a landscape; the smell of sweating horses, the smell of leather from the carriage upholstery, the smell of Prince and the smell of Jesuit, were all cancelled out by that Islamic perfume evoking houris and fleshly joys beyond the grave.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Now you need young men, bright young men, with minds asking ‘how’ rather than ‘why,’ and who are good at masking, at blending, I should say, their personal interests with vague public ideals.”

17. “Now you need young men, bright young men, with minds asking ‘how’ rather than ‘why,’ and who are good at masking, at blending, I should say, their personal interests with vague public ideals.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Nowhere has truth so short a life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self-interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.”

18. “Nowhere has truth so short a life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self-interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “The wealth of many centuries had been transmitted into ornament, luxury, pleasure; no more; the abolition of feudal rights had swept away duties as well as privileges; wealth, like an old wine, had let the dregs of greed, even of care and prudence, fall to the bottom of the barrel, leaving only verve and color.”

19. “The wealth of many centuries had been transmitted into ornament, luxury, pleasure; no more; the abolition of feudal rights had swept away duties as well as privileges; wealth, like an old wine, had let the dregs of greed, even of care and prudence, fall to the bottom of the barrel, leaving only verve and color.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one or two up there, at the zenith. As always, seeing them revived him; they were distant, they were omnipotent and at the same time they were docile to his calculations; just the contrary to humans, always too near, so weak and yet so quarrelsome.”

20. “The truth is that he wanted to draw a little comfort from gazing at the stars. There were still one or two up there, at the zenith. As always, seeing them revived him; they were distant, they were omnipotent and at the same time they were docile to his calculations; just the contrary to humans, always too near, so weak and yet so quarrelsome.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Lovers want to be alone, or at least with strangers; never with older people, or worst of all with relatives.”

21. “Lovers want to be alone, or at least with strangers; never with older people, or worst of all with relatives.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Later the brothers had quarrelled, one of those family quarrels we all know with deeply entangled roots, impossible to cure because neither side speaks out clearly, each having much to hide.”

22. “Later the brothers had quarrelled, one of those family quarrels we all know with deeply entangled roots, impossible to cure because neither side speaks out clearly, each having much to hide.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “She found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last deceiving philter of the desperate.”

23. “She found herself even without the solace of being able to blame her own unhappiness on others, a solace which is the last deceiving philter of the desperate.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Flattery always slipped off the Prince like water off the leaves of water lilies: it is one of the advantages enjoyed by men who are at once proud and used to being so.”

24. “Flattery always slipped off the Prince like water off the leaves of water lilies: it is one of the advantages enjoyed by men who are at once proud and used to being so.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “And the Prince, who had found Donnafugata unchanged, was found very much changed himself, for never before would he have issued so cordial an invitation; and from that moment, invisibly, began the decline of his prestige.”

25. “And the Prince, who had found Donnafugata unchanged, was found very much changed himself, for never before would he have issued so cordial an invitation; and from that moment, invisibly, began the decline of his prestige.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “His head had been stuffed with the tales of brigands by which Sicilians love to test the nervous resistance of new arrivals, and for a month he saw every usher in his office as a murderer, and every wooden paper cutter on his desk as a dagger; also the oil in the cooking had upset his insides.”

26. “His head had been stuffed with the tales of brigands by which Sicilians love to test the nervous resistance of new arrivals, and for a month he saw every usher in his office as a murderer, and every wooden paper cutter on his desk as a dagger; also the oil in the cooking had upset his insides.”

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Quote: “Among the papers and refuse swirled about by the wind were a few verses of La Bella Gigugin transformed into a kind a f Arab wail, a fare to which any gay tune sung in Sicily is bound to succumb.”

27. “Among the papers and refuse swirled about by the wind were a few verses of La Bella Gigugin transformed into a kind a f Arab wail, a fare to which any gay tune sung in Sicily is bound to succumb.”

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