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Language is a brilliant convention, words mean something only because we all agree that it should mean. (p. 11)

— Corrado Augias

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I like that the Catholic Church is less concerned with Italian politics, something it has done in a suffocating manner for years.

Today the issue is more dramatic than expected, given that state liberalism devoid of customary references becomes a mere mirror image of the most brutal bicameral system.

In the Constitution of 1948, the adjective "sacred" is used only twice: one of the two times is used to say that «the defense of the homeland is the sacred duty of the citizen».

I often go to talk in schools. Out of a class of 25 boys and girls I see two or three who have the spark. The rest is there, like goats.

Naples is a fundamental stage, I tell it in its contradictions and in its extreme vitality, even there [...], Naples and the Neapolitans represent for better or worse an Italy squared.

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