The fancies of wine are authentic events.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the illusions or dreams inspired by wine are genuine experiences worth recognizing.
Italo Svevo's quote reflects on the idea that the experiences and emotions evoked by wine, though often seen as mere fancies or illusions, are real and impactful. Wine is often associated with celebration, joy, and introspection, and the quote invites us to acknowledge these moments as authentic parts of our existence, suggesting that even ephemeral sensations can hold significance in our lives.
In practice
Using this quote during a wine tasting event to emphasize the significance of the feelings associated with wine.
Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
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You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.
There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves.
Divinity is not something supernatural that ever and again invades the natural order in a crashing miracle. Divinity is not in some remote heaven, seated on a throne. Divinity is love. . . . Wherever goodness, beauty, truth, love, are-there is the divine.
The passing of time and all of its crimes is making me sad again. The passing of time and all of its sickening crimes is making me sad again. But don't forget the songs that made you cry and the songs that saved your life.. Yes, you're older now and you're a clever swine. But they were the only ones who ever stood by you
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
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