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Quotes by Italian Authors
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
"The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go."
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
"The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for."
"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"
"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures."
"Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again."
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
"Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours."
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."
"Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times."
"I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."
"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy."
"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."
"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
"Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason."
"When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference."
"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."
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