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419 Italian Quotes

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Enjoyment Life Love Pain
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Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

Chain First Right Mistake
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One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Because Misery Does Love
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A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Alone Boy Company Grown
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cheapest Love Religions
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.

Ever Good Lacks Reason
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Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Cannot Disposition Increase Only
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One must look for one thing only, to find many.

Find Look Many Must
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
Begin Joy Only World
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All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Ambition Inferiority Origin Otherwise
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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

Being Paid Luxury Starting
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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Being Better Child Stops
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Absolutely Every Feeling Free
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

Before Clever Enough Fall
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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Forgotten Lies Life Memories
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Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Artists Bourgeois Monks State
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“A different language is a different vision of life.”

Different Language Vision Life
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“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.”

End Beginning Passion Life
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“I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.”

Idea Understanding Film Believe
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“Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.”

Even Make Film Sole
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“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”

Life Combination Magic Pasta
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It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman.

Easier Faithful Restaurant Woman
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“I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.”
Spent Life Trying Education
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“Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.”

Cinema Returning Womb Meditative
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“You exist only in what you do.”
Exist What You Do
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“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should learn to love each other so much to live outside of time... detached.”

Get Beyond Great Work
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“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”
Matter Happened Keep Childhood
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“Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.”
Trust Woman Eat Lousy
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“Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.”

Mind Act Shape Thing
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“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.”

When Doing Work Feel.alive
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“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”

Experience What Looking
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“I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.”

Believe Freedom Artist Ends
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“There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.”

Abundant Testimony Choose Love
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“If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.”

Little Silence Kept Quiet
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“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.”

Spherically Direction Childish Enthusiasm
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“Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.”

Realism Bad Word Realistic
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“I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?”

Television Betrayed Democratic Speech
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“Nothing is more honest than a dream.”

Honest Dream
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“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.”

Claim Contradict Deprive Nonsense
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“According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.”

According Doctors Suffering Light
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“A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Created Never Invented True
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“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

Talking Dream Movies Cinema
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“Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.”

Nothing Laughter Beautiful Magnificent
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

Write Half Saw Believed
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I speak and speak, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Speak Listener Retains Words
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My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

Heart Beats Breathe
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The true sweetness of wine is one flavor
True Sweetness Wine Flavor
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Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

Appreciated Being Capable Enormous
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We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.

Being Develops Discovered Does
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The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Able Children Did Exist
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