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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
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Besides the things I asked [Indira Gandhi], she told me about her son Rajiv, who is married to an Italian girl and is a pilot for Air India, then of her younger son Sanjay, who is an automobile designer and still a bachelor.
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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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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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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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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 defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
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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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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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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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America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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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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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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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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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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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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