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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier."
"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 cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
"The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer."
"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."
"It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness of their mission and welds them into unity."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned."
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him."
"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."
"The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that."
"Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan."
"And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years."
"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it."
"If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good."
"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on."
"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything."
"Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality."
"I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses."
"Although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic."
"Why d'you make me suffer?''Because I love you.Now it was his turn to get angry. 'No, no, you don't love me! People in love want happiness, not pain!'People in love want only love, even at the cost of pain.'Then you're making people suffer on purpose.'Yes, to see if you love me.The Baron's philosophy would not go any further. 'Pain is a negative state of the soul. 'Love is all. 'Pain should always be fought against.'Love refuses nothing.'Some things I'll never admit.'Oh yes, you do, now, for you love me and you suffer."
"There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved."
"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."
"Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman ...."
"For Leopardi, unhappy hedonist that he was, what is unknown is always more attractive than what is known; hope and imagination are the only consolations for the disappointments and sorrows of experience. Man therefore projects his desire into infinity and feels pleasure only when he is able to imagine that this pleasure has no end."
"What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial."
"I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives."
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