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Quotes by Italian Authors
"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
"It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention."
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment."
"Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears."
"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
"Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you."
"Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas."
"Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge."
"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
"Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever."
"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."
"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
"It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself."
"They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach."
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
"Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider."
"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand."
"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true."
"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
"You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time."
"I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one."
"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."
"I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family."
"Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest."
"Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone."
"Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
"I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready."
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