Eugenio Montale Quotes
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I'm not saving lives.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.
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I miss the days when faith was discussed in public and not the most intimate details of our personal lives.
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.
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Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning for women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.
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Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
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But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.
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One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For me, she's Miss Mattie T. Graham. I thought she needed something in the middle. If she's going to be an honorary Southerner, she's got to have something in the middle, so I just put an initial T and a period.
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I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.
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I played football and ran track in junior high, but by high school I was getting serious about my studies.
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There's really barely any sex in The Westworlds. But there is a lot of nudity. And it was always described to me as being done in a way that was supposed to be kind of sterile and mannequin-like and dehumanizing.
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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
