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Quotes by Italian Authors
"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
"The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe."
"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."
"All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today."
"Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!"
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
"He's dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end."
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."
"I had the conviction that lovemaking fools you. The overpowering emotions it induces make you think you're sharing the same feelings as the other person and that they're imagining the same as you."
"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves."
"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."
"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
"The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists."
"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."
"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate."
"By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel."
"When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression."
"One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness."
"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail."
"Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism."
"The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer."
"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
"You're the one who likes cigars right? Try smoking this."
"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
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