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Quotes by Italian Authors
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."
"Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure."
"When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day."
"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."
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
"It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground."
"How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know."
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
"It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs."
"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."
"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."
"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
"We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own."
"Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one."
"The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maiden's?"
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him."
"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."
"All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit."
"Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will."
"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."
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