The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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The knife, which is an artificial weapon, deprives man of his nails,  
his natural weapons.  
The mirror conducts itself haughtily holding mirrored in itself the  
Queen. When she departs the mirror remains there ...  
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325.  
Flax is dedicated to death, and to the corruption of mortals. To  
death, by being used for snares and nets for birds, animals and  
fish; to corruption, by the flaxen sheets in which the dead are  
wrapped when they are buried, and who become corrupt in these  
winding sheets.-- And again, this flax does not separate its fibre  
till it has begun to steep and putrefy, and this is the flower with  
which garlands and decorations for funerals should be made.  
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326.  
(Of Peasants who work in shirts)  
Shadows will come from the East which will blacken with great colour  
darkness the sky that covers Italy.  
(Of the Barbers.)  
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