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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.

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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
Every
Shreds
Leave
Experience
Soul

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Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.
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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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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.
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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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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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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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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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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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America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
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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 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 defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.
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