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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
"Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches."
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
"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."
"There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar."
"The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life."
"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
"I started to act in highschool and became a professional actor at 19."
"In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm."
"Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning."
"When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste."
"The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude."
"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity."
"In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream."
"Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before."
"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."
"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
"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."
"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight."
"The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious."
"Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America."
"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal."
"Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace."
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