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“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.”
― Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC

“Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.”
― Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC

“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.”
― Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich's ABC

“What remains is solitude.”
― Marlene Dietrich, Marlene

“There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich" Under a picture of a mom holding a baby :-)”
― Marlene Dietrich

“A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman-- any woman-- with beautiful legs.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“I am, at heart, a gentleman.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“You're never lonely with a book.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“If God exists, he needs to review his plan.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“A king, realizing his incompetence,
can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.
If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.”
― Marlene Dietrich

“Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.”
― Dante Alighieri

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”
― Dante Alighieri, Vita Nuova

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
― Dante

“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende
prese costui de la bella persona
che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.

Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,
Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,
Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..."

"Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,
Seized him with my beautiful form
That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.

Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,
took me so strongly with delight in him
That, as you see, it still abandons me not...”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Through me you pass into the city of woe:
Through me you pass into eternal pain:
Through me among the people lost for aye.
Justice the founder of my fabric moved:
To rear me was the task of power divine,
Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.
Before me things create were none, save things
Eternal, and eternal I shall endure.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso