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Renata Adler
Italian
Journalist
About the author
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
Renata Adler,
Italian
Journalist
#Life
#People
#Nothing
#Community
#Quality
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.
Renata Adler,
Italian
Journalist
It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler,
Italian
Journalist
#Experience
#History
#Self
In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.
Renata Adler,
Italian
Journalist
#World
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
Renata Adler,
Italian
Journalist
#Time
#People
#Accident
#Sleep
#Boredom
#Cruelty
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Renata Adler,
Italian
Journalist
#People
#Sleep
Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.
Renata Adler,
Italian
Journalist
#Fear
#Yesterday