“The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry.”
— Leonardo Sciascia (1921 – 1989)
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Category: Citazione del Giorno
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“Man, by his very nature, tends to give himself an explanation of the world into which he is born. And this is what distinguishes him from the other species. Every individual, even the least intelligent, the lowest of outcasts, from childhood on gives himself some explanation of the world. And with it he manages to live. And without it, he would sink into madness.”
— Elsa Morante (1912 – 1985)
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“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
— Ignazio Silone (1900 – 1978)
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“When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend’s bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.”
— Alessandro Manzoni (1785 – 1873)
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“Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.”
— Natalia Ginzburg (1916 – 1991)
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“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.”
— Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] (65 BC – 8 BC)
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“The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does – just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.”
— Marcus Antonius [Mark Antony] (86 BC – 30 BC)
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“Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.”
— Luigi Pirandello (1867 – 1936)
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“Art is what everyone knows it is.”
— Benedetto Croce (1866 – 1952)
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“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
— Primo Levi (1919 – 1987)
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