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Nature is honest, we aren't we embalm our dead.

Ugo Betti

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Ugo Betti
Age: 61 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 4
Died: 1953
Died: June 6
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.
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We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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When I say I, I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.
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