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When I say I, I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

Ugo Betti

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Ugo Betti
Age: 61 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 4
Died: 1953
Died: June 6
Judge
Playwright
Poet
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Thing
Uniqueness
Confused
Absolutely
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It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.
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We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
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Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.
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Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.
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Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.
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We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
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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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When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
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It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.
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A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.
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There is no forgiveness in nature.
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A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.
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