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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure."
"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
"I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds."
"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
"I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test."
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
"I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights."
"The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory."
"Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist."
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self."
"From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me."
"The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise."
"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy."
"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."
"What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same."
"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
"If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love."
"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
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