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Inspirational Quotes by Nadine Gordimer
- There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
- Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
- Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
- I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
- A desert is a place without expectation.
- I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
- A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
- A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
- Music has no limits of a life-span.
- Writing is making sense of life.
- Communists are the last optimists.
- Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
- There's no tiling moral about beauty.
- The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
- People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
- The facts are always less than what really happened.
- Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
- Books dont need batteries
- My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
- Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
- The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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- 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