Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Quotes
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
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A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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I am quite a positive man in real life. In fact, even when I have a hard discussion with somebody, it lasts only five minutes. Then I forget. And I forgive everything. But at the same time, as I am such an easygoing guy, to create something more intense, I have to be auto-destructive on the making of a film. And this will guarantee some density.
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There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.
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Man has not a greater enemy than himself.
