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Quotes by Italian Authors
"If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it."
"Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections."
"A woman at 20 is like ice, at 30 she is warm and at 40 she is hot."
"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell."
"It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important."
"Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition."
"We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own."
"To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator."
"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
"Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing."
"When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him."
"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help."
"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."
"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."
"Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries."
"It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation."
"For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent."
"I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family."
"The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect."
"Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love."
"The history of mankind is the history of ideas."
"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
"I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready."
"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one."
"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
"Well, what I tried to do is to just listen to my voice, because my voice is my boss. She decides."
"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."
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart."
"I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh."
"Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point."
"When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day."
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