Posted by: Jean-Paul Malfatti
Sincerity is one thing, but truth is quite another. One can also be sincere in not telling the truth or not telling it in full.
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Posted by: Jean-Paul Malfatti
If you have to pray and sacrifice an animal to purify your heart, that is not a prayer. That is pure hatred.
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I don't have a story but instead I myself am a story itself.
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I recommend: do not make a storm in a glass of water, rather drink the water, Keep Calm and, if you are a true Italian, fill the glass with a good wine or a good grappa and have a toast to yourself.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
If I were the Master of Life, I would teach you how to live; as I am not, I will let Life herself teach you how to.
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I am not and I do not claim to be Captain America but, as an Italian-American, I understand America much better than the Italians who think or even believe that they understand her.
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Poetry is the poetics of he who writes it and makes it fly in the mind of those who read it.
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Laws are not just for you who read, but for all those who must also obey them, including the illiterate and the weakly literate.
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If it seems to you that life asks you too much and gives you too little, try to give her a little less and attempt to settle for that apparent minimum that she provides you with.
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Posted by: Jean-Paul Malfatti
If someone you are talking with keeps himself mute, take care not to drastically or abruptly break his silence. Sometimes one needs a moment of quiet not to fully explode.
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