‘Horses and voters,’ the baron liked to say among friends, ‘if you do not put blinders on them, they will throw you into the nearest ditch.’
‘Horses and voters,’ the baron liked to say among friends, ‘if you do not put blinders on them, they will throw you into the nearest ditch.’
“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”
James Baldwin | Giovanni’s Room