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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months."
"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."
"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."
"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"
"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
"True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does."
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
"God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not conceive Himself, if, in order to do it, He required to know His own principle."
"Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging."
"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."
"Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems."
"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God."
"God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves."
"Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice."
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."
"The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved."
"Beauty is boring because it is predictable."
"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."
"Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides."
"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."
"Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!"
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."
"I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant."
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