Stefano Benni Quotes

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past!

[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however.