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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
"Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics."
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
"The cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in."
"From mirror to mirror - this is what I happen to dream of - the totality of things, the whole, the entire universe, divine wisdom could concentrate their luminous rays into a single mirror. Or perhaps the knowledge of everything is buried in the soul, and a system of mirrors that would multiply my image would then reveal to me the soul of the universe, which is hidden in mine."
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
"Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need."
"I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools."
"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned."
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
"At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage."
"If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?"
"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
"Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love."
"Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks."
"When I had my first voice lesson I was 15 years old. And I had a really good teacher. This is what made all the difference. A good teacher will teach you the technique, but also how to listen to your voice."
"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
"I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie."
"Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away over the branches as if she were flying, with him clambering after her, and that skirt of hers always in his face."
"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces."
"He wants only to rest and to have a little peace."
"Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind."
"It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world."
"Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face."
"As far as you are able to gather from hints scattered through these letters, Apocryphal Power, riven by internecine battles and eluding the control of its founder, Ermes Marana, has broken into two groups: a sect of enlightened followers of the Archangel of Light and a sect of nihilist followers of the Archon of Shadow. The former are convinced that among the false books flooding the world they can track down the few that bear a truth perhaps extrahuman or extraterrestrial. The latter believe that only counterfeiting, mystification, intentional falsehood can represent absolute value in a book, a truth not contaminated by the dominant pseudo truths."
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
"Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest."
"The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer."
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
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