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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.

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
Looking
Heap
Woman
Flowering
Found
Feast
Children
Season
Men
Leaves
Love
Seasons
Waning
People
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Greenery
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Rotting

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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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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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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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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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True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
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There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.
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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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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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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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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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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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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 belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
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