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“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
Variant: Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
"Artistic Freedom"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
Context: I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
“Experience is what you get while looking for something else.”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
"Experience"
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
Federico Fellini (1920–1993) Italian filmmaker
Fellini on Fellini (1976) edited by Anna Keel and Christian Strich; translated by Isabel Quigly.
Variant: There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
“It would be a crime to exhibit the fine side of war, even if there were one!”
Henri Barbusse book Under Fire
murmured one of the somber soldiers.
The first man continued. "They'll say those things to us by way of paying us with glory, and to pay themselves, too, for what they haven't done. But military glory — it isn't even true for us common soldiers. It's for some, but outside those elect the soldier's glory is a lie, like every other fine-looking thing in war. In reality, the soldier's sacrifice is obscurely concealed. The multitudes that make up the waves of attack have no reward. They run to hurl themselves into a frightful inglorious nothing. You cannot even heap up their names, their poor little names of nobodies."
Under Fire (1916), Ch. 24 - The Dawn
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
the human being's real quality, the delicate lights and shadows of human dreams, the sweet and complicated mystery of personalities, sensuous lovers deride them, both of them! They are two egoists, falling fiercely on each other. Together they sacrifice themselves, utterly in a flash of pleasure.
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face