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- What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
- It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to…
- The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
- Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
- Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing…
- Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that…
- The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
- Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play…
- The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.
- I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be…
- Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make…
- The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
- If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is…
- My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly…
- The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living that has a…
- The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we…
- ...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take…
- The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of…
- The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.
- For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.…
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
- Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don’t mean escaping into dreams or the…
- I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others,…
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is…
- Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle