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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

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Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, 'How are you, you old scoundrel!' clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel.

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To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

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You die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.

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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

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The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Novelist

Born: January 5th, 1932

Died: February 19th, 2016

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