I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

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Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

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All the blogs, Facebook, Twitter are made by people who want to show their own private affairs at the price of making fakes, to try to appear such as they are not, to construct another personality, which is a veritable loss of identity.

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There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

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Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.

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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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What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?

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The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.

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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

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