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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."
"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
"I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister."
"The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company."
"The world is a living image of God."
"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
"The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children."
"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."
"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."
"In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be."
"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."
"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
"Reason in man is rather like God in the world."
"Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor."
"The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon."
"The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters."
"Now I'm more sure and I feel myself more comfortable singing."
"It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves."
"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
"Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got."
"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism."
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