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Quotes by Italian Authors
"It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
"I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us."
"The seventh reader interrupts you: 'Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could only end in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.'You stop for a moment to reflect on these words. Then, in a flash, you decide you want to marry Ludmilla."
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand."
"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."
"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."
"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
"It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion."
"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."
"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
"Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world."
"It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews."
"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."
"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
"I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself."
"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."
"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."
"Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you."
"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
"Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure."
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