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Quotes by Italian Authors
"But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions."
"Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy."
"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
"I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism."
"Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind."
"Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself."
"Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned."
"Reading,' he says, 'is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, which cannot be changed, and through this thing we measure ourselves against something else that is not present, something else that belongs to the immaterial, invisible world, because it can only be thought, imagined, or because it was once and is no longer, past, lost, unattainable, in the land of the dead....''Or that is not present because it does not yet exist, something desire, feared, possible or impossible,' Ludmilla says. 'Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be...."
"The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious."
"It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine."
"It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument."
"Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears."
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
"I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest."
"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
"The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved."
"I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done."
"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
"Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?"
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
"As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament."
"Each city receives its form from the desert it opposes."
"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."
"Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models."
"I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion."
"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."
"Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition."
"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."
"You sin in thinking bad about people - but, often, you guess right."
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
"You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time."
"Quando ouvimos os sinos, ouvimos aquilo que já trazemos em nós mesmos como modelo. Sou da opinião que não se deverá desprezar aquele que olhar atentamente para as manchas da parede, para os carvões sobre a grelha, para as nuvens, ou para a correnteza da água, descobrindo, assim, coisas maravilhosas. O gênio do pintor há-de se apossar de todas essas coisas para criar composições diversas: luta de homens e de animais, paisagens, monstros, demônios e outras coisas fantásticas. Tudo, enfim, servirá para engrandecer o artista."
"Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing."
"I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one."
"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."
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