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Quotes by Italian Authors
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
"An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things."
"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly."
"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on."
"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."
"I do what I like now. I just don't have time for it all."
"I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon."
"As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously."
"Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation."
"Try to guess my answer to that question, however temptingly you pose it."
"I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters."
"I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!"
"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."
"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case."
"In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature."
"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men."
"Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing."
"I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips."
"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance."
"I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more."
"Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again."
"I really lack the words to compliment myself today."
"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."
"I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US."
"Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow."
"There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed."
"There is no certainty; there is only adventure."
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
"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."
"After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?"
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