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You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

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
States
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Neither
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Else

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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.
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Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't....out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because that is how he describes himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.
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I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
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If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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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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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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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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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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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 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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Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.
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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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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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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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Journalism combines adventure with culture.
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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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Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.
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