Eugenio Montale Quotes
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.
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There was never a war on poverty. Maybe there was a skirmish on poverty
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I'm very happy and very excited when my adrenalin is going.
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Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.
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Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.
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Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species ... Mankind has opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of this one item.
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Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain height, And, like an angel, stands beside us there; Then thrusts us, demon-like, in some abyss: Where, in the darkness of despair, we grope, Till, suddenly, Love greets us with a kiss And guides us back to flowery fields of hope.
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Control your life through insanity.
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Always did his best to defend this nation against terrorists and those states that support them.
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I'm very proud of the girls. This is the game I've been waiting for them to have.
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To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.
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I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.
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Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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A good title is a work of a genius!
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But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.
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Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
