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- If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
- But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.
- Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
- What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.
- A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
- It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
- There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
- Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
- I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
- I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a…
- Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
- My suffering left me sad and gloomy.
- It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
- I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.
- Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
- The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
- To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
- All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and…
- Christianity is a religion in a rush.
- Religion is more than rite and ritual.
- You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
- It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
- There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God…
- Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.
- Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
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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