"Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion. Nevertheless we are aware of intelligence circulating in the streets like a vivid bloodstream."

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Source : Natalia Ginzburg (2017). “The Little Virtues: Essays”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Natalia Ginzburg

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #Confusion Quotes

“I can be bought. If they paid me enough, I'd work for the Klan.”
“The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.”
“Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.”
“I draw things on the paper very freely but believing there is meaning to them already. There is already meaning in the colors, I don't need to be guided by words. I draw them and the meaning comes after. Every time we would start a new sequence we would change everything.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.”
“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.”
“Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.”
“My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.”

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