Ugo Betti Quotes

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• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
• This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
• We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of…
• Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
• If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
• When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All…
• Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes…
• We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in…
• Killing time is the chief end of our society.
• There is no forgiveness in nature.
• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
• When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
• To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.
• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
• Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.
• Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
• Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

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