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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

— Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

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There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Fellini on Fellini (1976)

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël De l’Allemagne [Germany (1813)

Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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