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Quotes by Italian Authors
"How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!"
"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God."
"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."
"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."
"My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength."
"Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models."
"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."
"I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion."
"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
"Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends."
"The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved."
"If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics."
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
"I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise."
"We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong."
"The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false."
"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."
"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."
"But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?"
"Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point."
"I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them."
"I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important."
"Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody."
"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
"One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better."
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel."
"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
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