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“Quante volte mi sono trovato su un trampolino con sotto il mare azzurro, e non mi sono tuffato”
― Fires
― Fires
“Stato" significa specialmente direzione consapevole delle grandi moltitudini nazionali; è quindi necessario un "contatto" sentimentale e ideologico con tali moltitudini e, in una certa misura, simpatia e comprensione dei loro bisogni e delle loro esigenze.”
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“I teach my students that you can't be a journalist if you are going to be judgmental. If you have a judgmental nuance as you pose a question, people will close down.”
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“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
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“Reading is ignorant. It begins with what it reads and in this way discovers the force of a beginning. It is receiving and hearing, not the power to decipher and analyze, to go beyond by developing or to go back by laying bare; it does not comprehend (strictly speaking), it attends. A marvelous innocence.”
― The Infinite Conversation
― The Infinite Conversation
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