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Death does determine life. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Life Death Determine Does
I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves... But I don't do things because people always like what I do. Pierfrancesco Favino
You Hurt People Nerves Some About Someone Something Touching Like Know Talk Reactions Because Always Normal May Things
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. Pietro Aretino
Heart Mind Calamities Cowardice Ought High Bear Bearing Since Them Grandeur Flee Fleeing Appears
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. Pietro Aretino
Friendship Wisdom Better Greater Because None Friends Than Us Granted Keep Things Treasure
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame. Pietro Aretino
Work Man Genius Free Master Style Own Living Enough Earn Others Worry Guide About My Own Free Man Well-Being Without Am Go Cease Fame Model Themselves Copy Need
It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. Pope Gregory VII
God Law Church Eye Rigid Some Spirit Some Things Following Rather Blind Blind Eye Discretion Than Roman Which Custom Turn Help Tolerate Letter Serve Things
Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap. Pope John XXIII
Top Road Am Heap End Here
Every Christian must be convinced of his fundamental and vital duty of bearing witness to the truth in which he believes and the grace that has transformed him. Pope John XXIII
Truth Grace Witness Duty Christian Every Must Vital Bearing He Him His Which Transformed Convinced Fundamental Believes
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. Pope John XXIII
Light Church Beginning Rises Council Splendid Daybreak Like Most Forerunner Now
Every man has the right to life, to bodily integrity. Pope John XXIII
Life Man Integrity Every Bodily Right Every Man
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. Pope John XXIII
Death Own Softly Follow Able My Own Step Towards Am End Move Now
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. Pope Paul VI
Anger Nest Cast Stone Wasp
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. Pope Paul VI
Life Work Art Me Interior Value Every Fragment Considered Rigidity Seems Facet Like Devoid Crystal Does Offer Any Human Just Meaning Human Life Regularity Deepest Hardness Exterior Luster
Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. Pope Paul VI
World Mother Will Every Enter Promised Promised Land See Moses Like She Does Land Prepares
Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? Pope Paul VI
Memories Phony Anniversary Safe Left Clutch
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features. Primo Levi
Memories Change Memory Lie Become Increase Carved Only Tend Features Marvelous Instrument Within Go Erased Years Stone Often Human Which Us Even
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. Primo Levi
Beautiful Me Skin Live Mine Unnatural Would Inside Seem More Exchange Picturesque Know House Them Skins Ample
Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need. Primo Levi
Nature Gossip Relief Obeyed Primary Piece Accompanies Experiences Anyone Transmitting Explosive Who Satisfying Need
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. Renata Adler
History Generation Experience Own Pretend Simply Self-Defeating Always Than Younger Your
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. Renata Adler
Life Quality People Nothing Community Defines More Mentally Clearly Quality Of Life Than Regard Themselves Chooses Who Whom Consensus
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. Renata Adler
Strange World Bear Most Misunderstandings Very Heat Process Litigation Fosters Things Profound Brings
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. Renata Adler
People Unless Bored Cruel Lot Sleep
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document. Renata Adler
Secret Destroys Only No-One Document Person Ever Copies
I was in love many times. This is very good for a woman. Renata Tebaldi
Love Good Woman Very Times Many
I know America is the country that loved me most. Renata Tebaldi
Me Country Know Most America Loved
My mother was my best friend and confidante. Renata Tebaldi
Best Mother Best Friend Friend
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