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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous."
"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."
"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."
"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
"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."
"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
"In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child."
"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
"It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us."
"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?"
"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it."
"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly."
"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."
"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."
"It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment."
"I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses."
"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!"
"We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance."
"Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary."
"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
"And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal."
"The psychiatrists examine you and ask you about your life and work, and then they decide whether your film can be shown or not. It's a horrible experience."
"The voice will guide you-will tell you what to do. In order to do that, you must be quite sensitive with the instrument and accept this daily conversation with your voice."
"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."
"The truth is that men are tired of liberty."
"History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community."
"Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration."
"I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants."
"To fall asleep like a bird. To have a wing you could stick your head under, aworld of branches suspended above the earthly world, barely glimpsed downbelow, muffled and remote. Once you begin rejection your present state, there is no knowing where you can arrive."
"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction."
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
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