"Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most……" — Ugo Betti
"Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions."
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34 Quotes by Ugo Betti
Ugo Betti has 34 quotes on this site.
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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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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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