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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Someone who was a part of my life. Probably the only one that really mattered."
"It is not necessary to dwell on the political and social principles of Islam, to underline how close they also are in spirit to the concepts of human rights which govern the political and social systems of the West."
"Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it."
"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."
"A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory."
"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."
"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
"The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future."
"For why should we not admire more the angels themselves and the blessed choirs of heaven?"
"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."
"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."
"When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love."
"The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come."
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
"I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything."
"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."
"The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."
"In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time."
"The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life."
"Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap."
"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 ...."
"Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.”
"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."
"An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God."
"I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils."
"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
"Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?"
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