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Quotes by Italian Authors
"No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it."
"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."
"The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience."
"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."
"The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other."
"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."
"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."
"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
"I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion."
"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
"I am positive that flexibility is a feminine characteristic."
"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
"Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many."
"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive."
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
"In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child."
"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."
"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do."
"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."
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