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Vyacheslav Molotov

Vyacheslav Molotov (Russian: Вячесла́в Миха́йлович Мо́лотов), Vjačeslav Mihajlovič Molotov, (9 March 1890 {February 25 O.S.} – 8 November 1986), was a Soviet politician and diplomat and a leading  government figure from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to the 1950s, when he was dismissed from office by Nikita Khrushchev. He was the principal Soviet signatory of the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, also known as the German-Soviet Non-aggression Pact.

Quotes

 * In capitalist countries the bourgeoisie leads. So long as imperialism and socialism are locked in struggle with each other, it's either a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie or a dictatorship of the working class.
 * As quoted in Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993) by Felix Chuev, p. 146. ISBN: 978-1-5663-715-2.

 * We also had a defeat in 1905 but we triumphed in 1917. We wouldn't have won in 1917 if it hadn't been for 1905. This should be taken into consideration. This should be understood. Some say, give us victory now! If not, it's no good. Tea drinkers. They want everything handed to them in a tea saucer.
 * As quoted in Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993) by Felix Chuev. ISBN: 978-1-5663-715-2.

 * Life has improved, and now as never before the doors to a happy and cultured life for all the peoples of our Union stand wide open. We are already enjoying the first fruits of our victory and we see that an unparalleled rise in the standard of living and culture of all the peoples of the Soviet Union awaits us. And in spite of all this, we have not yet seen the last of people who in their blind hatred of the new world are planning the seizure and dismemberment of the Soviet Union. Well, what shall we say to them? It is true that we appeared in the world without the permission of these gentlemen, and undoubtedly against their wishes.... This means that the time has come when the old world must make way for the new.
 * Speech (10 January 1930) as quoted in The Communist International (1936) Vol. 13

 * [W]e've done so much that even if we are smashed, everything will have been worth it. If not today, then tomorrow.
 * June 9, 1976 Interview, quoted in Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993) by Felix Chuev. ISBN: 978-1-5663-715-2.

 * Infallible people do not exist, Lenin used to say. It depends, first, on the kind of error and, second, how long it persisted. And whether there was willingness to pursue the line considered correct. If there was such willingness, certain errors had to be passed over."
 * As quoted in Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993) by Felix Chuev, p. 139. ISBN: 978-1-5663-715-2.

 * I do not believe that everything we did under Stalin was right. But the main thing we achieved gives us justifiable pride. Had we been conquered, we would have had to wait a long time for liberation.
 * As quoted in Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993) by Felix Chuev. ISBN: 978-1-5663-715-2.

 * Stalin will be rehabilitated, needless to say.
 * As quoted in Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics (1993) by Felix Chuev. ISBN: 978-1-5663-715-2.

 * Events arising out of the Polish-German War have revealed the internal insolvency and obvious impotence of the Polish state. Polish ruling circles have suffered bankruptcy.... Warsaw as the capital of the Polish state no longer exists. No one knows the whereabouts of the Polish Government. The population of Poland have been abandoned by their ill-starred leaders to their fate. The Polish State and its Government have virtually ceased to exist. In view of this state of affairs, treaties concluded between the Soviet Union and Poland have ceased to operate. A situation has arisen in Poland which demands of the Soviet Government especial concern for the security of its State. Poland has become a fertile field for any accidental and unexpected contingency that may create a menace for the Soviet Union.... Nor can it be demanded of the Soviet Government that it remain indifferent to the fate of its Blood Brothers, the Ukrainians and White Russians inhabiting Poland, who even formerly were nations without rights and who now have been utterly abandoned to their fate. The Soviet Government deems it its sacred duty to extend the hand of assistance to its brother Ukrainians and White Russians inhabiting Poland.
 * Extracts from Molotov’s broadcast speech on the Soviet invasion of Poland (17 September 1939) Mirovoe Khoziaistvo, 1939, 9, p. 13. In Soviet Documents on Foreign Policy. Volume I: 1917-1941. Jane Tabrisky Degras (ed.) 1953, Oxford University Press. Pages 374-5

 * Germany, which has lately united 80 million Germans, has submitted certain neighboring countries to her supremacy and gained military strength in many aspects, and thus has become, as clearly can be seen, a dangerous rival to principal imperialistic powers in Europe — England and France. That is why they declared war on Germany on a pretext of fulfilling the obligations given to Poland. It is now clearer than ever, how remote the real aims of the cabinets in these countries were from the interests of defending the now disintegrated Poland or Czechoslovakia.
 * Molotov's report on (29 March 1940), after the Polish defeat, as quoted in the weekly Soviet newspaper Moscow News, published by Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga (1 April 1940)

 * Only a fool would attack us.
 * Statement of June 1941, as quoted in Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives (1993) by Alan Bullock, p. 715

 * This is not the first time that our people have had to deal with an attack of an arrogant foe. At the time of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia our people’s reply was war for the fatherland, and Napoleon suffered defeat and met his doom. It will be the same with Hitler, who in his arrogance has proclaimed a new crusade against our country. The Red Army and our whole people will again wage victorious war for the fatherland, for our country, for honor, for liberty. The government of the Soviet Union expresses the firm conviction that the whole population of our country, all workers, peasants and intellectuals, men and women, will conscientiously perform their duties and do their work. Our entire people must now stand solid and united as never before. Each one of us must demand of himself and of others discipline, organization and self-denial worthy of real Soviet patriots, in order to provide for all the needs of the Red Army, Navy and Air Force, to insure victory over the enemy. The government calls upon you, citizens of the Soviet Union, to rally still more closely around our glorious Bolshevist party, around our Soviet Government, around our great leader and comrade, Stalin. Ours is a righteous cause. The enemy shall be defeated. Victory will be ours.
 * Radio broadcast in response to the German invasion (22 June 1941)

 * We cannot lose Poland. If this line is crossed, they will grab us, too.
 * Statement, as quoted in Surviving the Millennium (1994) by Hall Gardner, p. 236, with citations to Molotov Remembers (1993) by Felix Chuev, p. 54. ISBN: 978-1-5663-715-2.

 * As long as we live in a system of states, and as long as the roots of fascism and imperialist aggression have not finally been extirpated, our vigilance in regard to possible new violators of peace should not slacken, and concern for the strengthening of cooperation between the peace-loving powers will continue to be our most important duty.
 * As quoted in Strategy and Tactics of Soviet Foreign Policy (1963) by John Malcolm Mackintosh, p. 4

 * Someone helped us a lot with the atomic bomb. The intelligence (service) played a huge role. These Rosenbergs suffered in America. It is not excluded that they helped us. But we shouldn't really speak about it, because we might receive this kind of help in the future.
 * Statement about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg having performed espionage for the Soviet Union, as quoted in The FBI-KGB War : A Special Agent's Story (1995), by Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman, p. 306

 * Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the field of atomic energy, our scientists and technicians have vividly shown how much the increased might of the Soviet state and the further growth of its international authority depends on their efforts and practical successes.
 * As quoted in Newsweek, Vol. 43, Issues 1-13 (1954), p. 133

 * Who can think that this eviction of Germans was undertaken only as a temporary experiment? Those who adopted the decision on the eviction of the Germans from these territories, and who understood that Poles from other Polish districts would at once move into these territories, cannot suggest after a while to carry out reverse measures. The very idea of involving millions of people in such experiments is unbelievable, quite apart from the cruelty of it, both towards the Poles and the Germans themselves.
 * As quoted in The German-Polish Frontier (1959) by Walter M. Drzewieniecki, p. 71

 * The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out.
 * Remark at the Berlin Conference (1954) according to an eyewitness writing in International Affairs Vol. 36 (1960), p. 4

 * There is no alternative to class struggle.
 * As quoted in The Fifty-Year War : Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War (2007) by Norman Friedman, p. 58

 * The fact that atomic war may break out, isn't that class struggle? There is no alternative to class struggle. This is a very serious question. The be-all and end-all is not peaceful coexistence. After all, we have been holding on for some time, and under Stalin we held on to the point where the imperialists felt able to demand point-blank: either surrender such and such positions, or it means war. So far the imperialists haven't renounced that.
 * Remarks by Molotov in 1976, when he was in active retirement.

 * An atmosphere of extreme tension reigned during this period; it was necessary to act without mercy. I think that it was justified. If Tukhachevsky, Yakir, Rykov and Zinoviev had started up their opposition in wartime, there would have been an extremely difficult struggle; the number of victims would have been colossal. Colossal. The two sides would have been condemned to disaster. They had links that went right up to Hitler. That far. Trotsky had similar links, without doubt. Hitler was an adventurist, as was Trotsky, they had traits in common. And the rightists, Bukharin and Rykov, had links with them. And, of course, many of the military leaders.
 * Quote from Ludo Martens's Another View of Stalin, pp. 177. Original quote from the Russian version of F. Chueva Sto sorok besed s MOLOTOVYM (Moscow: Terra, 1991), p. 413 (The quote does not appear in the French translation: Félix Tchouev, Conversations avec Molotov (Paris: Albin Michel, 1995).) The quote can also be found here

Quotes about Molotov

 * Havoc and ruin had been around him all of his days, either impending on himself or dealt by him to others. Certainly in Molotov the Soviet machine had found a capable and in many ways characteristic representative — always the faithful Party man and Communist disciple. How glad I am at the end of my life not to have had to endure the stresses which he has suffered; better to never have been born. In the conduct of foreign affairs, Mazarin, Talleyrand, Metternich, would welcome him to their company, if there be another world to which Bolsheviks allow themselves to go.
 * Winston Churchill, in The Second World War, Vol. I : The Gathering Storm (1948), Book I, Ch. 20 : The Soviet Enigma, p. 331

 * Molotov has a fine forehead, and looks and acts like a French professor of medicine — orderly, precise, pedantic. His importance is sometimes not appreciated; he is by no means a mere figurehead, but a man of first-rate intelligence and influence. Molotov is a vegetarian and a teetotaler. Stalin gives him much of the dirty work to do. He had the nasty job of admitting how many cattle and hogs were killed by the peasants before the famine.
 * John Gunther, in Inside Europe : Again Completely Revised (1938), p. 483

 * One former member of [the antiparty] group [Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [ Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [ Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? … It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them.
 * Anastas Mikoyan, "Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote" in Time magazine (26 January 1959)

 * We went over to Lancaster House where the last hours of the conference between the wartime allies were being played out... I thought Molotov radiated evil in a way that I have never encountered before or since. Anthony Eden told me that he was the cruellest man he had ever met. In 1991 I read General Dmitri Volkoganov's biography of Stalin, described by critics as the first serious treatment of Stalin to come out of Moscow. The references to Molotov's role are chilling, and his signature appears again and again with Stalin's on documents condemning hundreds upon hundreds of men and women to death.
 * Anthony Montague Browne, Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill's Last Private Secretary (1995), p. 51

 * Why did Churchill, so hard-headed about Hitler, maintain such illusions about Stalin’s tractability? In large part it was because the two dictators were viewed very differently in the West. In contrast with the plenitude of information available on Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the Soviet regime had remained virtually a closed book during this period. Diplomatic staff had minimal opportunity for contacts with Russian officials, let alone the ordinary population. Even ambassadors rarely met Stalin; they dealt with his foreign minister, Vyacheslav Molotov, renowned as a hard-faced “Mr. Nyet.” Moreover the Soviet press provided virtually no useful political intelligence, in stark contrast with the media in Washington, which offered endless insights into the White House and Capitol Hill. Churchill spoke aptly in 1939 of Soviet policy as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Then suddenly the Soviets needed outside help and the doors to the Kremlin were flung open. In the second half of 1941, Roosevelt’s emissaries Harry Hopkins and Averell Harriman and Churchill’s right-hand men Max Beaverbrook and Anthony Eden all spent hours with Stalin. Churchill met him for extended summits on five occasions, joined by Roosevelt for two of them.
 * David Reynolds, Summits: Six Meetings that Changed the Twentieth Century (2007), p. 112

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Yusuf Qaradawi

Yusuf al-Qaradawi (Arabic: يوسف القرضاوي, romanized: Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī; or Yusuf al-Qardawi; 9 September 1926 – 26 September 2022) was an Egyptian Islamic scholar based in Doha, Qatar, and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars.

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 * Islam, the religion of tolerance, holds the human soul in high esteem, and considers the attack against innocent human beings a grave sin; this is backed by the Qur'anic verse that reads: "Who so ever kills a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he has killed all mankind, and who so ever saves the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind," (Al-Ma'idah:32).... I categorically go against a committed Muslim's embarking on such attacks.
 * "Qaradawi Condemns Attacks Against Civilians: Forbidden in Islam", Islam-online.net (13 September 2001), as quoted in The Future of Islam (2010) by John Louis Esposito, p. 100.

 * The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.
 * Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi Reacts to the Murder of Four Americans in Al-Fallujah: 'How could you punish an entire people because four corpses were mutilated?' (April 2004).

 * There are clerics who oppose martyrdom operations in Palestine. By these operations Allah has compensated the Palestinians for their lack of strength. They do not, as the Zionists do, have Apache helicopters, warplanes, tanks, missiles. Allah has compensated them for this with these human bombs. This is divine justice.
 * (God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.
 * Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Suicide Operations (April 2004).

 * The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us....we will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.
 * Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions (May 2004).

 * Judaism is the No. 1 propagator of violence....the Torah itself states that when you enter a certain country, you must offer peace, and if they agree, all their residents are your slaves. In other countries, you should not offer peace or conversion. You must destroy them all, do not leave a living soul. In the first country you must slay all males and leave only the women, but in the second country, you must not leave… you must uproot them. This is in Judaism, in the Torah.
 * Sheikh Qaradhawi: American Culture And Judaism Spread Violence In The World (May 2004).

 * The truth is that what happened is a reaction to these barbaric acts (in Abu Ghureib prison)...I say that the general atmosphere affects behavior... Even though Islam states that prisoners should be treated decently, there are those who allow killing a prisoner in certain circumstances.
 * Sheikh Dr. Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi about the Murder of American Citizen, Nick Berg (May 2004).

 * There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.
 * Sheik Youssef Al-Qaradhawi in Favor of Democratic Elections in the Arab World (June 2004).

 * Who said that I preach terrorism and killing?! This is astonishing! Astonishing that a man faces false accusations while he is still alive and people know him and can serve as witnesses.... I don't claim things that are not in Islam and I don't invent an Islam of my own, but people invent lies about me... I don't believe in secret activities or organizations. I operate in full view of the public eye. People read my books and hear my sermons on the TV channels, my lectures are published for everyone to read, on my Internet website, and on the website.
 * Sheik Al-Qaradhawi: US, Israel Waging War On Me, Accusing Me of Supporting Terrorism (January 2005).

 * People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others....These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism"....Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?!
 * Tsunami Reactions (9) - Sheik Al-Qaradhawi: Disaster a Punishment for Sex Tourism (January 2005).

 * Millions marched in countries that participated in the war in Iraq, in Britain, Spain, and Italy. Their governments went to war, but the peoples protested against this in the millions. Am I allowed to kill theses people?!...We want [the attackers] to understand the religion and to know what is forbidden. They have a flaw in their understanding of Jihad. They believe that Jihad means fighting the entire world. Who has said such a thing?
 * Sheik Al-Qaradhawi: Are We Allowed to Kill the Mayor of London Just Because He is British?! (March 2005).

 * We use trains and planes, but they are not our trains or planes. The (Westerners) manufacture them and export them to us....We own them, but we don't manufacture them. We don't even produce a single nail in any of these cars....Islam teaches us to do things professionally. Doing things professionally is a religious duty....The Prophet said that Allah ordered to excel in everyhting....Even when killing, you must do well....We import everything from needles to missiles. This is our nation. We still haven't manufactured an engine in our Arab countries. We assemble parts, but have no manufacturing industries.
 * Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: The Islamic Nation's Problem is That Muslims Do Not Work. The Zionist Gang Has Turned the Desert into an Oasis (15 April 2005).

 * Throughout history [...] Allah has imposed upon the Jews people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them — even though they exaggerated this issue — he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers [Muslims].
 * From a sermon broadcast by Al Jazeera (2008), as quoted in Jeffrey Goldberg "New Chapter, Old Story", The New York Times (11 October 2013)

 * What remains, then, is to conquer Rome. The second part of the omen. 'The city of Hiraq [once emperor of Constantinople] will be conquered first,' so what remains is to conquer Rome. This means that Islam will come back to Europe for the third time, after it was expelled from it twice… Conquest through Da'wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da'wa.
 * Qaradawi: No Chopping Off of Hands Now…But Later is OK. (January 2012)

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

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No such film exists, or has even been confirmed by the studio as in production; there is no IMDb page and the corresponding Wikipedia article has been deleted. Smurrayinchester 08:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Vote closed: Result: Delete. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 17:28, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Delete. ~ UDScott 12:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete as a 2009 movie (in theory at least) it's pretty much impossible to source. Koweja 14:42, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete I assume that "Wikipedia is not a crystal ball" holds here too.--Poetlister 17:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete If it were confirmed as existing and these were genuine quotes, which were obtained despite a studio embargo, then it could result in legal problems. There has been extensive discussion of a similar situation on WP. (I think OFFICE intervened eventually.) Tyrenius 02:23, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete--Cato 21:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. - InvisibleSun 04:23, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Looks like its in the works, but an unreleased film has no place here. Dev920 06:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete for all the reasons above. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 14:14, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. Checking Wikipedia as an admin there, I have found its article deleted as uncomfirmed future film.--Jusjih 16:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment; having read the page again, the entire page seems to be borderline patent nonsense about what might happen if Chamillionaire appeared in Over the Hedge (hence random references to 'dawgs' and Pimp My Ride). If Wikiquote had its own Bad Jokes and other Deleted Nonsense page, I'd strongly suggest moving this there. Smurrayinchester 13:10, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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Star Trek: Phase II (fan series)

Star Trek: Phase II (previously Star Trek: New Voyages) is a fan series based on the popular science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series.
 * Directed by Erik Goodrich and Marc Scott Zicree. Written by various writers.

The Five Year Mission Continues.

(From Episode 4.00: Pilot Episode of the 4th Season: "Come What May")

 * Capt. James T. Kirk: Go to Red Alert. Mr. Scott, divert all ship's power to the engines. I want Warp 8. Lay in a direct course to the outer sheath. I'm on my way.
 * Dr. Leonard McCoy: What about the Admiral?
 * Mr. Spock: I'm sure he'll call back.
 * Lt. Nyota Uhura: (To the ship over the intercom) Red Alert. All hands man your battle stations. This is not a drill.

(From Episode 4.01: "In Harms Way")

 * Mr. Spock: Capt. Kirk, I do not make this request lightly: It is urgent that you alter course for Gateway immediately.
 * Kirk: Mister...  'Spock'? I don’t know what good one starship can do. I’m sure the scientists there at project timepiece can handle the situation.
 * Dr. MacGregor: I knew this would happen.
 * Mr. Spock: Captain, as Lt. Uhura has told you, my request has priority 1 authorization. You may confirm this with Starfleet Command, but you must comply. Spock out.

 * Dr. MacGregor: Welcome, Captain.
 * Capt. Kirk: Dr. McGregor, thank you. This is my chief medical officer, Dr. Leonard McCoy -and my first officer, Commander Kargh.
 * Dr. MacGregor: How do you do. This is Commander Spock...
 * Mr. Kargh: "Commander?" There are no Vulcans in Starfleet.
 * Dr. McCoy: There aren't any Vulcans anywhere.

 * Dr. MacGregor: Captain, until this shift in time, Mr. Spock was your first officer -aboard the Enterprise.
 * Kirk: "Enterprise?"
 * Dr. McCoy: There's no ship named...
 * Mr. Spock: According to my research, you and the crew of the Farragut were assigned many of the same missions, had many of the same experiences, shared many of the same crises as the crew of the Enterprise.
 * Mr. Kargh: Parallel time and development is not without precedent.

 * Mr. Kargh: The Enterprise is in the past. Time travel, Captain?
 * Kirk: We know exactly where and when the Enterprise will encounter the fist doomsday machine. If we could be there at the same time...
 * Mr. Spock: Captain, the 'Slingshot Effect' is not precise.
 * Mr. Kargh: We could emerge hours -or weeks -from our target.

 * Dr. McCoy: If we're wrong about the way this [time travel] thing works...
 * Lt. Vincent DeSalle: ...yeah. We'll wind up as cave paintings. I know.

 * Capt. Kirk: How do we know your correct history is the right one, the best one?
 * Mr. Spock: Because, Jim, here in your time line, billions of people are dead. (To Dr. McCoy) As you pointed out, doctor, Vulcan and dozens of other worlds have been destroyed in the 14 years since the 1st of those machines appeared [since the doomsday war begun]. In my time line, those worlds are still there, vibrant, thriving, filled with life.
 * Kirk: So, that's what we're supposed to do? Use the vortex to travel back in time to 2254 and stop these things before they can start a war?
 * Mr. Spock: Without the proper preparation, you would be annihilated along with everything else in your path. First, we must gather more information.

 * Capt. Christopher Pike: Steve Garrovik is the captain of the Farragut, so who the devil are you?
 * Capt. Kirk: That’s going to be somewhat difficult to explain. But it’s absolutely vital that you listen to what I have to say. I invite you to beam aboard the Farragut. Bring your senior staff with you if you prefer.
 * Number One: Captain, I verify their ship’s registry and command code, but much of the vessel’s internal configuration does not match fleet specifications.
 * Capt. Kirk: I can explain that too.
 * Capt. Pike: I just bet you can; How about *this*, “Captain”: You and your senior officers beam over *here*, and I promise I’ll have a security team standing by. Pike out. (To 'Number One') Number one, care to hear this explanation?
 * Number One: Certainly, sir.
 * Capt. Pike: Dr. Boyce, meet us in the transporter room.

 * Capt. Pike: Kirk, if that fancy ship of your can get off the mat, it's time we finish this thing off.

 * Dr. McCoy: All this, for a history that we don't know? For people that we may or may not become? Call it off while you still can.

 * Narrator: A devastating war, that never should have happened, and now our future lies in the past. Two mighty starships - Two courageous captains; One inescapable destiny: To prevent doomsday.

 * Klingon Captain: This prize is all ours...

 * Mr. Spock: I suggest you target these coordinates.

 * Capt. Pike: (To Admiral Kirk) I'm getting pretty damned tired of this. Is time-travel just something you guys do in the future?
 * Admiral Kirk: Chris? It's good to see you on your feet.
 * Capt. Kirk: I'm... guessing that you're from the future, Admiral?
 * Ambassador Spock: That is a logical assumption. 2293 to be precise.

 * Admiral Kirk: Fleet Captain, Pike, has suffered severe radiation poisoning. The Daedalus will make it to Starbase 11 where he will receive medical attention.
 * Capt. Kirk: I only wish we could have done more.
 * Ambassador Spock: We will, Captain. We will.
 * Admiral Kirk: It's only a matter of time. Oh, and, Jim. Contact [your wife] Carol. It's a boy.

 * Admiral Kirk: (To Ambassador Spock after he was unable to prevent Capt. Pike from getting radiation poisoning from Pike's rescue of some crew members on a damaged ship) "Ambassador, you're needed back aboard the Enterprise." (Then the future Kirk & Spock return to their own time-line)

 * Capt. Pike: (Beeps twice to acknowledge Spock.)
 * Ambassador Spock: (To the injured Capt. Christopher Pike, in a wheelchair and unable to speak) Do not despair. There are alternatives. The 'Spock' you know [from your time-line] will soon arrive. His plan will work, Captain. It is a foregone certainty. But I must know it is what you want.
 * Capt. Pike: (Beeps twice to indicate 'Yes.')
 * Ambassador Spock: Captain, do you remember what Dr. Boyce often said about living one's life to the fullest? One lives life as it happens, meeting it head-on -or turning his back on it and withering away. Do not chose to whither away. Live long and prosper. (To the ship) Energize.

 * Mr. Spock: Spock to Enterprise: One to beam up.
 * The Guardian: Time has resumed its shape. All is as it was before. Many such journeys are possible. Let me be your gateway.

(From the vignette, "Center Seat" -chronologically between episodes 4.01 and 4.02)

 * Lt. DeSalle: (After steering the wrong way, and nearly flying into the sun with the Enterprise) My first exam in Stellar Nav, I flunked because I'd switched a plus and a minus early in the basic equation. The rest of the calculations were based on that. (Pause) I hadn't had much sleep.
 * Capt. Kirk: (To Sulu and DeSalle) I'll expect both your reports by 0600.
 * Commander Hikaru Sulu: (Pause) Computer, begin retrieving navigational archives.
 * Computer: Working.
 * Cmdr. Sulu: (To DeSalle) Did you really fly my ship out of the time gateway?
 * Lt. DeSalle: Hikaru, it was amazing. You should have been there. The thing was huge to begin with, but there were these canyon walls. And wind sheer.
 * Cmdr. Sulu: Wind sheer?
 * Lt. DeSalle: That you would not believe...

(From Episode 4.02: "To Serve All My Days")

 * Lt. Pavel Chekov: (Sees Klingon ship decloak) What the hell?
 * Ambassador Rayna Morgan: What are you doing?
 * Chekov: Buying time. That debris field might camouflage our image. He might not know what to target.
 * Ambassador Morgan: "Target?"
 * Chekov: His disruptors are armed.

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 * Lt. DeSalle: Not a bad piece of flying out there, Chekov.
 * Chekov: Thank you.
 * Lt. DeSalle: Considering you're not rated for helm, as well as navigation.
 * Chekov: Well, it doesn't matter in the shuttle -as I demonstrated.
 * Lt. DeSalle: Still, a double bridge qualifications means more when promotions come up. (Wink)
 * Chekov: DeSalle, what's your phaser firing rank?
 * Lt. DeSalle: Eighty-five.
 * Chekov: (Pause) Ninety-seven. (Wink)

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Fathi Yakan

Fathi Yakan (February 9, 1933 – June 13, 2009) was a prominent Islamic cleric and former member of parliament in the Lebanese Republic.

Quotes

 * There is no doubt that Sheik Osama bin Laden has a high level of faithfulness, trustworthiness, and transparency. He is faithful to his religion and to Jihad for the elevation of the word of Allah...This man has a pure, honest and believing personality. He defends all that belongs to Islam and who renounces anything that is not Islamic.

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Frankie Howerd

Francis Alick Howerd, known as Frankie Howerd OBE (6 March 1917 – 19 April 1992) was an English comedian and comic actor whose career spanned six decades. His routine included double entendres, with Howerd berating his audience for taking the bawdier interpretation. His career suffered in the late 1950s before a revival in the 1960s, including starring in Up Pompeii!. He was undergoing a second revival in the early 1990s at the time of his sudden death.

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 * Oooh noo, please, it's wicked to mock the afflicted! Well it might be one of your own! Don't laugh at her, she might want paying - I told her this was an audition! She's known to me as Madam Vera Roper, but she's known to everyone else as The English Open!
 * Howerd introducing Mrs Vera Roper, his pianist, who was deaf.

 * Very clever, all those boys are, very clever boys. I think they should turn professional. They tell me now they've learned to put on make-up. Soon they're going to use it on the stage!

 * I was on a cycle rally and we were passing Chequers – I thought, I'll nip in. I'm sorry – I told him. I was very forthright, stupid to be anything else. I said, "Harold, be careful", I said, "Harold, don't rush into this, I beg you." I don't think he got the message. Well, it's very difficult when you're shouting through a letter box!

(passim through the BBC programme Up Pompeii).
 * The Prologue!

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Talk:Falklands War

falklands war was a big battle what went on 4 1995 it was a war on an i land and it happened in a city called stanly

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Lee Teng-hui

Lee Teng-hui (Simplified Chinese: 李登辉; Traditional Chinese: 李登輝; Pinyin:Lǐ Dēnghuī; 15 January 1923 – 30 July 2020) was a politician from Taiwan. He was the President of Taiwan and Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. His tenure was marked with major extensions to the democratic reforms initiated by Chiang Ching-kuo. He also promoted the Taiwan localization movement and led an aggressive foreign policy to gain diplomatic allies. His critics accused him of black gold politics and being a secret supporter of Taiwan independence who was trying to undermine the party he headed.

Quotes

 * I am more than seventy years old. Having lived under different regimes, from Japanese colonialism to Taiwan’s recovery, I have greatly experienced the miseries of the Taiwanese people. In the period of Japanese colonialism, a Taiwanese would be punished by being forced to kneel out in the sun for speaking Tai-yü. The situation was the same when Taiwan was recovered: my son, Hsien-wen, and my daughter-in-law, Yüeh-yün, often wore a dunce board around their necks in the school as punishment for speaking Tai-yü... [Taiwanese peoples’] lives are influenced by history. I think the most miserable people are Taiwanese, who have always tried in vain to get their heads above the water. This was the Taiwanese situation during the period of colonialism; it was not any different after Taiwan’s recovery [that is, the rule of the Chiang-era KMT]. I have deep feelings about this.
 * Chung-yang jih-pao (Central Daily News), International Edition, 1994-04-16), as quoted in Hsiau, A-chin, "Language Ideology in Taiwan: The KMT’s language policy, the Tai-yü language movement, and ethnic politics," Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (1997), 18.4, p. 302

 * Don't think that because many Taiwanese came from China, Taiwan is a part of China.
 * Lee Teng-hui (2013) cited in "Ex-president Lee rejects Ma's comments on nature of China ties" on Focus Taiwan, 23 October 2013

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Cesare Pavese

Cesare Pavese (9 September, 1908 – 27 August 1950) was an Italian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic and translator.

Quotes

 * Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
 * The Faber Book of Aphorisms

The Beach (1941)

 * For some time my friend Doro and I had agreed that I would be his guest. I was very fond of Doro, and when he married and went to Genoa to live, I was half sick over it. When I wrote to refuse his invitation to the wedding, I got a dry and rather haughty note replying that if his money wasn't good for establishing himself in a city that pleased his wife, he didn't know what it was good for. Then, one fine day as I was passing through Genoa I stopped at his house and we made peace. I liked his wife very much, a tomboy type who graciously asked me to call her Clelia and left us alone as much as she should, and when she showed up again in the evening to go out with us, she had become a charming woman whose hand I would have kissed had I been anyone else but myself.
 * Incipit

 * We were at the age when a friend's conversation seems like oneself talking, when one shares a life in common the way I still think, bachelor though I am, some married couples are able to live.
 * Chapter 2, p. 8

 * What's got into your head? That I'm returning to my origins? The important things I have in my blood and nobody is going to take them away. I'm here to drink a bottle of my wine and sing a little–with anybody.
 * Chapter 2, p. 9

 * Don't mix wine and women, Doro.
 * Chapter 2, p. 13

 * See, you're like all the others. But don't you understand that we can't quarrel? We love each other. If I could hate him the way I hate myself, then of course I would abuse him. But neither of us deserves it. See?
 * Chapter 3, p. 20

 * If all this were true, how easy it would be to understand people.
 * Chapter 4, p. 24

 * What doesn't slumber under the shells of us all? One just needs courage to uncover it and be oneself. Or at least to discuss it. There isn't enough discussion in the world.
 * Chapter 4, p. 25

 * I've discovered nothing. but do you remember how much we talked when we were boys? We talked just for the fun of it. We knew very well it was only talk, but still we enjoyed it.
 * Chapter 4, p. 25

 * You've got to understand life, understand it when you're young.
 * Chapter 4, p. 27

 * All of them, all those idiots who force their brains and don't know when to stop.
 * Chapter 4, p. 26

 * I started explaining to her that nothing is vulgar in itself but that talking and thinking make it so.
 * Chapter 6, p. 36

 * But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.
 * Chapter 9, p. 48

The House on the Hill (1949)

 * For a long time we had talked of the hill as we might have talked of the sea or the woods. I used to go back there in the evening from the city when it grew dusk, and for me it was not just another place but a point of view, a way of life. For instance, I saw no difference between those hills and these ancient ones where I played as a child and where I live now: the same broken, straggling country, cultivated and wild, the same roads, farmhouses, and ravines. I used to climb up there in the evening as if I too were fleeing the nightly shock of the air-raid alarms.
 * Incipit

 * I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.
 * Chapter 1, p. 63

 * The courage to stand alone as if others didn't exist and think only of what you're doing. Not to get scared if people ignore you. You have to wait for years, have to die. Then after you're dead, if you're lucky, you become somebody.
 * Chapter 8, p. 105

 * It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone...
 * Chapter 8, p. 105

 * That war in which I had been sheltering, convinced of having accepted it, of having made my own uncomfortable peace, grew more ferocious, bit deeper, reached into one's nerves and brain.
 * Chapter 13, p. 125

 * There is something indecent in words.
 * Chapter 13, p. 126

 * Not believing in anything is also a religion.
 * Chapter 15, p. 139

 * Even today I wonder why those Germans didn't wait for me at the villa and send someone to look for me in Turin. It is because of their failure that I am still free and up here. Why I should have been saved and not Gallo, or Tono, or Cate, I don't know. Perhaps because I'm supposed to suffer for others? Because I'm the most useless and don't deserve anything, not even punishment? Because I went into a church that time? The experience of danger creates more cowards every day. It makes one stupid. I have reached the point of being alive only by chance, when many better men than I are dead, I don't like it, it's not enough. At time, after having listened to the useless radio and looked through the windows at the empty vineyards, I think that living by accident is not living, and I wonder if have really escaped.
 * Chapter 16, p. 144

 * But I have seen the unknown dead, those little men of the Republic. It was they who woke me up. If a stranger, an enemy, becomes a thing like that when he dies, if one stops short and is afraid to walk over him, it means that even beaten our enemy is someone, that after having shed his blood, one must placate it, give this blood a voice, justify the man who shed it. Looking at certain dead is humiliating. One has the impression that the same fate that threw these bodies to the ground holds us nailed to the spot to see them, to fill our eyes with the sight. It's not fear, not our usual cowardice. One feels humiliated because one understands–touching it with one's eyes–that we might be in their place ourselves: there would be no difference, and if we live we owe it to this dirtied corpse. That is why every war is a civil war; every fallen man resembles one who remains and calls him to account.
 * Chapter 23, p. 176

 * I don't believe it can end. Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.
 * Ending words

Among Women Only (1949)

 * But she didn't laugh. "When you have children," she said, staring at her glass, "you accept life. Do you accept life?"
 * Chapter 9, p. 212

 * She didn't seem dead. There was only a swelling of the lips, as if she were angry. The strange thing was her idea of renting a painter's studio, having an armchiar, no less, drawn up s she could die in front of the window that looked toward Superga. A cat had given her away–it was in the room with her, and the next day, miaowing and scratching the door, it had made them open.
 * Ending words

The Devil in the Hills (1949)

 * We were very young. I don't think I ever slept that year, but I had a friend who slept even less than I did. Some mornings you could see him strolling up and down in front of the station when the first trains were arriving and leaving.
 * Incipit

 * Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?
 * Chapter 5, p. 306

 * There's nothing that tastes of death more than the summer sun, the powerful light, exuberant nature. You sniff the air and listen to the woods and know that the plants and animals don't give a damn about you. Everything lives and consumes itself. Nature is death...
 * Chapter 7, p. 311

 * I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding.
 * Chapter 9, p. 319

 * Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.
 * Chapter 11, p. 327

 * Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?
 * Chapter 18, p. 354

The Moon and the Bonfire (1950)

 * There is a reason why I came back to this place—came back here instead of to Canelli, Barbaresco or Alba. It is almost certain that I was not born here; where I was born I don't know. There is not a house or a bit of ground or a handful of dust hereabouts of which I can say: "This was me before I was born."
 * Incipit

 * That you need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.
 * Chapter I, p. 9

 * It wasn't a country where a man could settle down and rest his head and say to the others, "Here I am for good or ill. For good or ill let me leave in peace." This was what was frightening.
 * Chapter III, p. 22

 * The real affliction of old age is remorse.
 * Chapter VIII, p. 49

 * What use is this valley to a family that comes from across the sea and knows nothing about the moon and the bonfires? You must have grown up there and have in in your bones, like wine and polenta, and then you know it without needing to speak about it and everything you have carried about inside you for so many years without knowing awakens now at the rattle of the chain on a cart, at the swish of an ox' tail, at the taste of a bowl of minestra, at the sound of a voice heard in the square at night.
 * Chapter X, p. 56

 * Nuto, who had never really gone away, still wanted to understand the world and change it, and upset the cycle of the seasons. Or perhaps he didn't, and still believed only in the moon. But I, who didn't believe in the moon, knew that when all was said and done only the seasons matter and they are in your bones and they nurtured you when you were a boy.
 * Chapter X, p. 60

 * The whole plain was like a battlefield—or a farmyard. There was a reddish light and I jumped down, cramped and stiff with cold; a sliver of moon was piercing the low clouds and it looked like a gash from a knife and bathed the plain in a blood-red light. I stayed looking at it for a while. It terrified me.
 * Chapter XI, p. 67

 * Even then he had those piercing cat's eyes of his and when he had said something, finished up by saying: "If I'm wrong, put me right." And so I began to understand that you didn't speak for the sake of speaking, to say that you had done this or that, what you had eaten or drunk, but to work out an idea, to find out what makes the world go round.
 * Chapter XVII, p. 98

 * He told me that it isn't what you do but how you do it that shows whether you are clever or not.
 * Chapter XVII, p. 99

 * He told them it was only dogs that bark and go for strange dogs, and men set on a dog because it suits them to show that they are still masters, but if the dogs weren't dumb animals they would come to an agreements with each other and start barking at them.
 * Chapter XVIII, p. 107

 * At a certain point the two cigars fell at our feet in the snow and then we heard them whispering up there and moving about and then came a sigh louder than the others. When we looked up we could see nothing but the withered vine leaves and thousands of stars in the frosty sky. Nuto said "The blackguards" through his clenched teeth.
 * Chapter XXIII, p. 133

 * Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.
 * Chapter XXVI, p. 148

 * People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists.
 * Chapter XXVI, p. 149

 * I realised that Nuto was quite right when he said that to live in a hovel or in a palace was one and the same thing, that blood is the same colour everywhere, and that everybody wants to be rich and in love and make their fortune.
 * Chapter XXIX, p. 167

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

 * Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.
 * 1935-12-20

 * What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
 * 1936-02-16

 * What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
 * 1936-02-16

 * Consider this point carefully: nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
 * 1936-04-24

 * When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.
 * 1937-11-13

 * Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
 * 1937-11-06

 * If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight—they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.
 * 1937-11-21

 * The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment. When this sensation is lacking—as when one is in prison, or ill, or stupid, or when living has become a habit—one might as well be dead.
 * 1937-11-23

 * But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
 * 1937-11-26

 * A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
 * 1937-11-30

 * It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.
 * 1937-12-25

 * This much is certain: you can have anything in life except a wife to call you "her man." And till now all your life was based on that hope.
 * 1938-01-05

 * The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.
 * 1938-01-05

 * La difficoltà di commettere suicidio sta in questo: è un atto di ambizione che si può commettere solo quando si sia superata ogni ambizione.
 * Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.
 * 1938-01-16

 * Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?
 * 1938-01-19

 * A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.
 * 1938-01-26

 * Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.
 * 1938-02-02

 * Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.
 * 1937-02-19

 * To avenge a wrong done to you, is to rob yourself of the comfort of crying out against the injustice of it.
 * 1938-03-05

 * No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
 * 1938-03-23

 * When one has made a mistake, one says. "Another time I shall know what to do," when one should say is: "I already know what I shall really do another time."
 * 1938-04-25

 * Since God could have created a freedom in which there could be no evil (i.e., a state when men were happy and free and certain not to sin), it follows that He wished evil to exist. But evil offends Him. A commonplace case of masochism.
 * 1938-05-13

 * The only reason why we are always thinking of our own ego is that we have to live with it more continuously than with anyone else's.
 * 1938-05-26

 * Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.
 * 1938-06-07

 * All our "most sacred affections" are merely prosaic habit.
 * 1938-06-12

 * We care so little of other people than even Christianity urges us to do good for the love of God.
 * 1938-07-08

 * Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.
 * 1938-09-19

 * All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority, otherwise called ambition.
 * 1938-09-19

 * The man of action is not the headstrong fool who rushes into danger with no thought for himself, but the man who puts into practice the things he knows.
 * 1938-10-03

 * You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
 * 1938-10-05

 * It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.
 * 1938-10-13

 * It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.
 * 1938-10-16

 * Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality.
 * 1938-10-25

 * Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
 * 1938-11-02

 * I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.
 * 1938-11-06

 * What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.
 * 1938-11-13

 * When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves.
 * 1938-12-03

 * Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.
 * 1938-12-10

 * The most banal thing, discovered in ourselves, becomes intensely interesting. It is no longer an abstract banality, but an amazing co-ordination between reality and our own individuality.
 * 1939-01-19

 * No matter how much a young man likes to think for himself, he is always trying to model himself on some abstract pattern largely derived from the example of the world around him. And a man, no matter how conservative, shows his own worth by his personal deviation from that pattern.
 * 1939-03-05

 * The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.
 * 1939-05-15

 * War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.
 * 1939-09-09

 * We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.
 * 1939-12-14

 * Love is the cheapest of religions.
 * 1939-12-21

 * Things which cost nothing are those which cost the most. Why? Because they cost us the effort of understanding that they are free.
 * 1940-01-21

 * In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
 * 1940-02-09

 * If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
 * 1940-03-17

 * Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
 * 1940-04-19

 * A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
 * 1940-07-22

 * Anchorites used to ill-treat themselves in the way they did, so that the common people would not begrudge them the beatitude they would enjoy in heaven.
 * 1940-07-27

 * We do not remember days, we remember moments.
 * 1940-07-28

 * We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.
 * 1940-08-05

 * Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
 * 1940-08-08

 * A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.
 * 1940-08-14

 * The really clever thing, in affairs of this sort, is not to win a woman already desired by everyone, but to discover such a prize while she is still unknown.
 * 1940-10-07

 * There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.
 * 1940-10-10

 * Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.
 * 1940-10-12

 * Great lovers will always be unhappy, because, for them, love is of supreme importance. Consequently they demand of their beloved the same intensity of thought as they have for her, otherwise they feel betrayed.
 * 1940-10-14

 * We obtain things when we no longer want them.
 * 1940-10-15

 * A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself.
 * 1941-04-04

 * No woman marries for money: they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him.
 * 1941-04-14

 * When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.
 * The winter of '41-'42
 * Things are revealed through the memories we have of them. Remembering a thing means seeing it—only then—for the first time.
 * 1942-01-28

 * In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
 * 1942-05-04

 * Love is desire for knowledge.
 * 1942-08-30

 * There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
 * 1942-09-06

 * The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.
 * 1943-02-03

 * When you dream, you are an author, but you do not know how it will end.
 * 1943-10-08

 * Narrating incredible things as though they were real—old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible—the new.
 * 1943-11-11

 * In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).
 * 1944-07-14

 * The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
 * 1944-11-13

 * There is nothing fine about being a child: it is fine, when we are old, too look back to when we were children.
 * 1945-09-06

 * We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.
 * 1945-11-22

 * How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
 * 1945-11-28

 * Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.
 * 1946-02-08

 * There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.
 * 1946-03-04

 * Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
 * 1946-05-04

 * Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.
 * 1946-09-15

 * There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.
 * 1946-09-16

 * We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
 * 1947-07-21

 * The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
 * 1947-08-10

 * It is not that things happen to each of us according to his fate, but that he interprets what has happened, if he has power to do so, according to his sense of his own destiny.
 * 1948-01-25

 * The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
 * 1949-02-13

 * The act—the act—must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.
 * 1950-05-10

 * Nothing can be added to the rest, to the past. We always begin afresh. One nail drives out another. But four nails make a cross.
 * 1950-08-16

 * Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
 * 1950-08-17

 * The thing most feared in secret always happens. I write: oh Thou, have mercy. And then? All it takes is a little courage. The more the pain grows clear and definite, the more the instinct for life asserts itself and the thought of suicide recedes. It seemed easy when I thought of it. Weak women have done it. It takes humility, not pride. All this is sickening. Not words. An act. I won't write any more.
 * 1950-08-18, end. Nine days later he committed suicide, leaving this message: «I forgive everyone and to everyone I ask forgiveness. Well enough? Don't gossip too much».

title: Cesare Pavese


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