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- Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
- Man alone can enslave man.
- The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
- I can, therefore I am.
- Humility is attentive patience.
- A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
- All sins are attempts to fill voids.
- Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
- The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
- A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
- Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
- Nothing is less instructive than a machine.
- Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
- If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
- Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.
- Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
- Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
- He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.
- Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.
- The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
- We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
- Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
- No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.
- The only great spirit of our time.
- I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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- 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