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Quotes by Italian Authors
"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."
"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
"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."
"I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics."
"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons."
"It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner."
"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
"Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins."
"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
"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."
"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"
"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
"Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!"
"A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory."
"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."
"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."
"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?"
"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
"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."
"How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God."
"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."
"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."
"From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me."
"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."
"And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class."
"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
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