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Quotes by Italian Authors
"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."
"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."
"Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love."
"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
"Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing."
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
"Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends."
"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons."
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
"Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins."
"Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues."
"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
"Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible."
"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."
"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."
"Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend."
"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."
"Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom."
"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
"It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me."
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