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Your sort, always combining flavors! Sea urchins have to taste also like lemon, sugar also like chocolate, love also like paradise!

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.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

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

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

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

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

They are coming to teach us good manners!" I replied in English. "But they won't succeed, because we are gods.

There is no need to tell you that the 'Prince of Salina' is the Prince Lampedusa, my great-grandfather Giulio Fabrizio.

In her wake came Don Calogero, a rat escorting a rose: though his clothes had no elegance this time they were at least decent.

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

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.