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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

Oriana Fallaci

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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
War Correspondent
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
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The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madnessif you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.
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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.
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Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony... In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
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Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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