"If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy."

-- Harry Seidler

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“And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.”
“But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.”
“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.545, Northwestern University Press
“I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some defect, you make it obvious to everyone, and suddenly everyone is staring at just that defect. It's always like that. The more you hide something, the more it shows. But when you accept your defect, suddenly no one on earth sees it anymore.”
“You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.”

Source : R. T. Kendall (2008). “The Parables of Jesus: A Guide to Understanding and Applying the Stories Jesus Told”, p.53, Baker Books
“Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.”
“I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it's really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.”
“When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.”

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