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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
Oriana Fallaci
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Oriana Fallaci
Age: 77 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 29
Died: 2006
Died: September 15
Conspiracy Theorist
Journalist
Politician
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Florence
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I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.
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If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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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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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!
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I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.
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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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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
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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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But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
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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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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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