"At a given moment, I open my eyes……" — Ugo Betti
"At a given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, for all eternity, what was there? Nothing."
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34 Quotes by Ugo Betti
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
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We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain…
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Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
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When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace,…
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Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words,…
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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there…
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Killing time is the chief end of our society.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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