Ugo Betti Quotes

• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

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  Care, Mark, Left Behind

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• There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

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  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Certain

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• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

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  Eye, Vision, Moments

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• To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.

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  Believe, Surprise, Wonderful

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• Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

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  Character, Important, News

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• If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

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  Guilt, Sentimental, Kind

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• All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

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  Names, Giving, Mad

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• When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

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  Men, Together, Empty

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• When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

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  Confused, Mean, Unique

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• When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

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  Believe, Want, Belief

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• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

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  Ideas, People, Obsession

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• There is no forgiveness in nature.

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  Nature, No Forgiveness

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• Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

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  Death, Ideas, Forever

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• Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

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  Sister, Sibling, Love Is

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• The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

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  Years, Old Friends, Temptation

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• Killing time is the chief end of our society.

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  Time, Our Society, Killing

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• Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

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  Carpe Diem, Giving, Want

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• A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

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  Marriage, Men, Long

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• A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

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  Doctors, Police, Fronts

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• This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

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  Scary, Free Will, Bits

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• The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

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  Sincerity, Spontaneity, Conventions

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• It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

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  People, Needs, Difficult

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• Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.

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  Memories, Distance, Stones

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• Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

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  Errors, Justice, Custodians

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• We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

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  Hate, Believe, Play

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