Ugo Betti Quotes - Page 2

• There is no forgiveness in nature.

  Ugo Betti

  Nature, No Forgiveness

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

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  Sister, Sibling, Love Is

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

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  Running, Ideas, Long

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

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  Men, Order, Insecurity

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

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  Scary, Free Will, Bits

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

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  Marriage, Men, Long

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

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  Eye, Moments, Eternity

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

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  Bullying, Unjust, Satisfaction

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

  Ugo Betti

  Doctors, Police, Vague

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

  Ugo Betti

  Hate, Believe, Play

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  Ugo Betti

  Men, Ideas, Mad

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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