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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Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.
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Think good, speak good and do good, to bring about positive change in the world.
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All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.
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Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.
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When I was a boxer, I wanted to be champion of the world, not the richest man in the world.
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Too many lives are needed to make just one.