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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower."
"The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others."
"The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy."
"I love the smell of book ink in the morning."
"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance."
"For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign."
"Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places."
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
"Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it."
"Perhaps everything lies in knowing what words to speak, what actions to perform, and in what order and rhythm; or else someone's gaze, answer, gesture is enough; it is enough for someone to do something for the sheer pleasure of doing it, and for his pleasure to become the pleasure of others: at that moment, all spaces change, all heights, distances; the city is transfigured, becomes crystalline, transparent as a dragonfly."
"It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip."
"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices."
"Gladio had been necessary during the days of the Cold War but, in view of the collapse of the East Block, Italy would suggest to Nato that the organisation was no longer necessary."
"Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression."
"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."
"If I love order, it's not the mark of a character subjected to an inner discipline, a repression of the instincts. In me the idea of an absolutely regular world, symmetrical and methodical, is associated with that first impulse and burgeoning of nature.The rest of your images that associate passion with disorder, love with intemperate overflow - river fire whirlpool volcano - are for me memories of nothingness and listlessness and boredom."
"The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph."
"The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company."
"Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point."
"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"
"My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do."
"For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion."
"I live quietly at home among my family and friends."
"I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce."
"Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned."
"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."
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
"I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important."
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