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Quotes by Italian Authors
"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."
"National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same."
"We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses."
"You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools."
"Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church."
"How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!"
"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political."
"I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds."
"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."
"One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."
"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station."
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master."
"You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation."
"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
"Fascism is a religious concept."
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"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."
"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."
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
"Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future."
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."
"The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art."
"After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world."
"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."
"Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
"I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin."
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