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Quotes by Italian Authors
"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
"We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry."
"In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world."
"Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging."
"To conquer the command of the air means victory; to be beaten in the air means defeat and acceptance of whatever terms the enemy may be pleased to impose."
"Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned."
"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves."
"Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life."
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them."
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."
"I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do."
"Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare."
"I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor."
"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
"It is extraordinary to have time to again study Le nozze di Figaro and discover new things."
"Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one."
"Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more."
"People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not."
"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."
"I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then."
"The first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life."
"Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom."
"I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done."
"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."
"No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance."
"Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid."
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
"Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not."
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