You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
SOPHIA LORENI was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
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Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.
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Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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A dog is faithful, a woman never.
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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It’s necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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