Fausto Cercignani quotes
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“Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.”
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“Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.”
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“We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.”
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“As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.”
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“Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.”
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“Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.”
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“Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.”
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“When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.”
-- Fausto CercignaniSource : "Simply Transcribed: Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris (p. 37), 2014.
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“Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.”
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“A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.”
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“Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.”
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“Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.”
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“It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.”
-- Fausto CercignaniSource : "Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris, p. 21, 2013.
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“If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.”
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