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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.

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
Men
Instinct
Survival
Fight
Flock
Lose
Realizes
Realizing
Flocks
Loses
Sheep
Fighting
Vain
Even
Leads

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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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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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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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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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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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I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
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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 defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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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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The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.
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