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Quotes by Italian Authors
"We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi."
"To fall in the void as I fell: none of you knows what that means I went down into the void, to the most absolute bottom conceivable, and once there I saw that the extreme limit must have been much, much farther below, very remote, and I went on falling, to reach it."
"It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power."
"That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. Hold property and external riches with fear; they often leave their possessor scorned and mocked at for having lost them."
"It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection."
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."
"Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me."
"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."
"How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child."
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
"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."
"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it."
"No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired."
"Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, history. I follow the news, read books, but they befuddle me. What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did."
"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing."
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
"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."
"Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there."
"The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists."
"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."
"And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite."
"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."
"There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult for me to communicate to others, define, translate into words, but which for this very reason appear to me decisive. They are announcements or presages that concern me and the world at once: for my part, not only the external events of my existence but also what happens inside, in the depths of me; and for the world, not some particular event but the general way of being of all things."
"Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!"
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
"These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time."
"Religion has nothing to do with God. It's a fundamental attitude of human beings, who ask about the origins of life and what happens after death. For many, the answer is a personal god. In my opinion, it's religion that produces God, not the other way round."
"For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination."
"There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list."
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