"The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."

-- Italo Calvino

#Two Quotes #Stories Quotes #Faces Quotes

“The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.”
“Somebody asked me the other day, "What do you do?" "I amuse myself by growing old," I replied. "It's a full-time job.”
“Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.”
“Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. There are no uneducated people; only most people are educated wrong. The true task of culture today is not a task of expansion, but of selection-and-rejection. The educationist must find a creed and teach it.”
“I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.”
“Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.”
“So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others.”
“In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.”

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