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A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.
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Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.
I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.
The snow is falling on the deserted field of my life, and my hopes, which roam far, are afraid of becoming frozen or lost.
To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.
As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
I know there is no straight road No straight road in this world Only a giant labyrinth Of intersecting crossroads
Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.
The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as nowhere else, you feel a total absence of the spirit: herds of men who cannot count past three, herds more who cannot get past six, scorn for pure science and demoniacal respect for the present. And the terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their duty to keep that huge machine running, day and night, forever.
At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.
