Eugenio Montale Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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I never like to think that we can't win a game, but this was certainly our toughest challenge of the season. We match up well with them, but we needed to have a big second half -- and we did.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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Minimizing the sum of completion times leads to a very simple optimal algorithm called Shortest Processing Time: always do the quickest task you can.
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Photographs offer more than decisive moments. They are not alone, they add and subtract and change with time. They are metaphors for our lives... Even a static photograph can change in the blink of a day or decade.
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Too many lives are needed to make just one.
