Quotes by Chiara BORRELLO

chiaraborrello1 — 2024-12-05 09:35:00 UTC

"I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer."

chiaraborrello1 — 2024-12-05 09:35:56 UTC

"You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been."

chiaraborrello1 — 2024-12-05 09:36:40 UTC

"Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?"

chiaraborrello1 — 2024-12-05 09:37:43 UTC

I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.

chiaraborrello1 — 2024-12-05 09:38:36 UTC

"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."

chiaraborrello1 — 2024-12-05 09:39:16 UTC

"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity."

chiaraborrello1 — 2024-12-05 09:39:52 UTC

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow."