Stefano Benni Quotes

#1. That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

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#2. When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

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#3. [M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however.

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#4. Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

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#5. Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past!

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#6. The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.

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#7. [T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

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#8. If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

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#9. Destiny cuts
the cake of love,
Three slices to some,
To others, a crumb.

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