"Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody."

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Source : Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.72, Arcade Publishing

Natalia Ginzburg

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“After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.”
“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”
“The fact that I'm a woman is as important to my work as a poet as the fact that Ahmad ShÄmlu was a man was important to his work as a poet. Basically, gender shouldn't be viewed as an advantage in art. If a poem or a piece of writing is good, what difference does it make whether it's by a woman or a man? And, if it's bad, why should its writer's gender make it good?”
“I have gained a lot of perspective from the places I have traveled too and the people I have been fortunate enough to meet.”
“Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.”
“We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots; The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by false devotion never flammed, Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.”
“A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books
“Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.”

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