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  • Every tiny part of us cries out against the idea of dying, and hopes to live forever.

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

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
  • Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
  • When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
  • Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
  • Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

  • We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
  • Everyone has, inside himself ... what shall I call it? A piece of good news! Everyone is ... a very great, very important character.

    Ugo Betti (1958). “Three plays”
  • There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
  • The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

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

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • When you put a man and a woman together, there are some things they simply have to do. They embrace, they warm each other. All the rest is dead and empty.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • 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 (1968). “Three Plays”
  • It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”
  • Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • 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?

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
  • Behind everything we feel, there is always a sense of fear.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
  • It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
  • The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact that every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
  • Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

    Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”
  • Killing time is the chief end of our society.

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