Fausto Cercignani quotes

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor. (Fausto Cercignani)
Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.
Fausto Cercignani
It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.
Fausto Cercignani
Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.
Fausto Cercignani
Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.
Fausto Cercignani
When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.
Fausto Cercignani
Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.
Fausto Cercignani
If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.
Fausto Cercignani
A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.
Fausto Cercignani
Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
Fausto Cercignani
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement. (Fausto Cercignani)
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.
Fausto Cercignani
As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.
Fausto Cercignani
We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.
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If you talk to the shadows, at least you know them well and the words, all of them, unfold themselves with ease on muddled walls and streets, when dusk comes on.
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They do not speak of boundless skies, of passing loves like silver clouds. They speak of cheerless towns, unwound: on hazy moors of muffled music.
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