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- ...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
- Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
- All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
- The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
- In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
- Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
- We live at the edge of the miraculous.
- One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
- The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
- What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.
- And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way…
- The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.
- They never opened the door which leads to the soul.
- Everything hinges on how you look at things
- The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.
- Even the idiot may have a message for us
- Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to…
- I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast.
- I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.
- I have found God, but he is insufficient.
- Cluster together like stars!
- Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master…
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento