Ugo Betti quotes
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“Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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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.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
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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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“Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.”
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“When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
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“To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.”
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“Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
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“'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.”
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“Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
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“Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
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“Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?”
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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 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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“Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“There is no forgiveness in nature.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
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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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“Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
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“If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
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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.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“Killing time is the chief end of our society.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
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“The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.”
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“We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
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“Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.”
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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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“Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1958). “Three plays”
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“The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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“When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.”
-- Ugo BettiSource : Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
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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.”
-- Ugo Betti
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