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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude."
"The difference between style and fashion is quality."
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
"When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere."
"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon."
"Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized."
"The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period."
"Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready."
"The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists."
"I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor."
"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."
"The political tradition of ancient thought, filtered in Italy by Machiavelli, says one thing clearly: every prince needs allies, and the bigger the responsibility, the more allies he needs."
"My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily."
"Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap."
"Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well."
"An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God."
"To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative - the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time."
"Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man."
"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."
"Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community."
"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."
"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."
"To fall asleep like a bird. To have a wing you could stick your head under, aworld of branches suspended above the earthly world, barely glimpsed downbelow, muffled and remote. Once you begin rejection your present state, there is no knowing where you can arrive."
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
"It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive."
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
"It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life."
"Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor."
"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'"
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