Michele Pasin / Quotes

Importance of the psychology/motivation of the researcher

Our motivations matter personally because they are, quite literally, what keep us going. We are in this respect (I very much hope) no different from the…

Look Down Go Down #women #men #days

Killing to live versus living to kill

IN MY FIRST KNIFE FIGHT I learned that there are two kinds of people who enter a deadly conflict: those who kill to live, and those who live to kill. The ones…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #blood #women #reasons #men #fight #life

Loyal to the men, not the mafia

But I was alone, and for two reasons. The mafia was theirs, not mine. For them, the organisation always came first. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #men #chest #differences #blood #women #mafia

Self-mastery as a soldier's virtue

Living in a fragmented and predatory world, the inhabitants of a Greek city-state, who could never afford to take the survival of their community completely…

Sexuality And Gender In The Classical World - Readings And Sources #pain #women #survival #men

Unfinished skyscrapers as silos for shadows

We’d reached the perimeter of the legal slum, and the megalithic immensity of the twin skyscrapers loomed before us. Concreting had been completed to…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #men #women #children #slums

Uomini e donne, due specie diverse

“A volte penso che siamo come animali di due specie diverse, anche se tecnicamente apparteniamo alla stessa.” “È così” dice lui. “Eppure continuiamo a fare…

Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea) #men #women #relationship #authenticity