„Ruhm ist nicht gut für die Menschen. Berühmte Leute glauben plötzlich, was man ihnen sagt: dass sie besser sind.“
— Donna Leon
Interview im Migros-Magazin 26, 28. Juni 2005
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Donna Leon
Geburtstag:29. September 1942
Andere Namen:Дона Леон,دانا لئون,Донна Леон
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„Je älter man wird, desto näher rückt man an den Punkt, an dem man gar nichts mehr haben wird. Ich konzentriere mich auf die wirklich wichtigen Dinge.“
— Donna Leon
Interview im Migros-Magazin 26, 28. Juni 2005
„In meiner Freizeit widme ich mich außerdem der Gartenarbeit. Etwas wachsen zu sehen ist das Schönste der Welt.“
— Donna Leon
Interview im Migros-Magazin 26, 28. Juni 2005
„Ich liebe die Italiener, weil sie so großzügig sind und den Menschen vergeben können.“
— Donna Leon
Interview im Migros-Magazin 26, 28. Juni 2005
„Tatsächlich kenne ich nicht eine einzige Person, der Berühmtheit gut getan hätte. Im besten Fall verändert sie sich nicht.“
— Donna Leon
Interview im Migros-Magazin 26, 28. Juni 2005
„Die Amerikaner reden zu viel über die Politik anderer Leute; sie mischen sich in Dinge ein, die sie nichts angehen.“
— Donna Leon
Interview im Migros-Magazin 26, 28. Juni 2005
„How beautiful, the grace of women; how soft their charity.“
— Donna Leon
Dressed for Death
„He looked down at the glass again. ‘I care that these things happen, that we poison ourselves and our progeny, that we knowingly destroy our future, but I do not believe that there is anything - and I repeat, anything - that can be done to prevent it. We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as “the common good”. The best of us can rise to feeling concern for our families, but as a nation we are incapable of more.’
‘I refuse to believe that.’ Brunetti said.
‘Your refusal to believe it,’ the Count said with a smile that was almost tender, ‘makes it no less true, Guido.“
— Donna Leon
Death in a Strange Country
„We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them.
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Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.“
— Donna Leon
Quietly in Their Sleep
„Vianello had the knack of getting people to talk. Especially if they were Venetians, the people he interviewed invariably warmed to this large, sweet-tempered man who gave every appearance of speaking Italian reluctantly, who was only too glad to lapse into their common dialect, a linguistic change that often carried its speakers along to unconscious revelation.“
— Donna Leon
Death and Judgment
