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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity.


Eugenio Montale

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Eugenio Montale - born in Genoa in 1896, died in Milan, 1981 - is one of the twentieth-century Europ...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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KATE MIDDLETON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future.
CHERISE WOLAS You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purpos...
BRIAN FERNEYHOUGH Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD To be or not to be that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage chang...
LEON C. MEGGINSON To question reason is to trust it.
MITCH STOKES It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to ne...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much las...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's not the end of the world to lose.
ANDY MURRAY It was so dark it was like noting was there in the room but us. Only the nothing was actually someth...
PAUL TREMBLAY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Another year is ending, but something is pending
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is ex...
ONYI ANYADO I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN if you really want to understand the real fear of God, ponder over Joseph with Potiphar's wife in th...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Cod and halibut tend to co-mingle quite a bit.
GREGG WILLIAMS Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.
J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Guard your thoughts.
Your thoughts define the state of your wellness.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter.
STEVEN CUOCO Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY By what criteria can one decide which of a person's countless beliefs are primitive? The essential f...
MILTON ROKEACH Brighton goes through English teachers like Hogwarts devours Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers.
SHANNON LEE ALEXANDER Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make man...
CHARLES DICKENS I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
STEPHEN KING Your body has a beginning and an end; your body is subject to birth and death; but you, the spark of...
SCIENCE OF IDENTITY She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO It's nice to have things to look forward to.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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EUGENIO MONTALE Too many lives are needed to make just one.
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EUGENIO MONTALE Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihi...
EUGENIO MONTALE Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so af...
EUGENIO MONTALE There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t...
EUGENIO MONTALE Holidays - Have no pity
EUGENIO MONTALE The new man is born too old to tolerate the new world. The present conditions of life have not yet e...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.
EUGENIO MONTALE Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thi...
EUGENIO MONTALE I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one...
EUGENIO MONTALE True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated peo...
EUGENIO MONTALE For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of addin...
EUGENIO MONTALE Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.
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e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad og...
EUGENIO MONTALE Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word...
EUGENIO MONTALE This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the...
EUGENIO MONTALE “Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a
flickering light, to the fee...
EUGENIO MONTALE Bring me then the plant that points to those bright Lucidites swirling up from the earth, And life i...
EUGENIO MONTALE Io sono abituato a cibarmi
di nuvole e lontananza.
EUGENIO MONTALE There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occur...
EUGENIO MONTALE Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new w...
EUGENIO MONTALE Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. B...
EUGENIO MONTALE The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
EUGENIO MONTALE Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil a...
EUGENIO MONTALE I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
EUGENIO MONTALE But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, ...
EUGENIO MONTALE It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be conside...
EUGENIO MONTALE I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon th...
EUGENIO MONTALE In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
EUGENIO MONTALE Pantelion and Televisa can reach my core fan base better than anyone, and with the distribution expe...
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EUGENIO ALEMAN There are lots of indicators that show that the economy has accelerated considerably in the first qu...
EUGENIO ALEMAN Today's labor report could not have been more disheartening to those who thought the Fed had ended i...
EUGENIO ALEMAN Once the market realizes there is no real threat of an immediate conflict, the market will calm down...
EUGENIO ALEMAN Wages are 70 percent of the cost of production. That puts pressure on the cost structure of business...
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EUGENIO FIGUEREDO He was appointed yesterday (Monday) and the clubs were informed. Tomorrow he will be presented.
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