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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  Who Cares, 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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• 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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• 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, Wonderful, Surprise

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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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• Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

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  Fear, Feels, Behinds

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• Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

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  Firsts, Accepted, Duty

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• Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

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  Honest, Burial

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• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

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  Men, Ideas, Mad

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• I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

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  Family, Home, Thinking

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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, Temptation, Old Friends

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• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

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  Eye, Moments, Eternity

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• We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

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  Bullying, Unjust, Satisfaction

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• Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

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  Running, Ideas, Long

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• We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

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  Art, Philosophy, Fate

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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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