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Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

Ugo Betti
Sister, Sibling, Love Is
Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

Ugo Betti
Justice, Innocent, Responsible
Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

Ugo Betti
Running, Ideas, Long
Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?

Ugo Betti
Men, Order, Insecurity
Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

Ugo Betti
Scary, Free Will, Bits
Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

Ugo Betti
Marriage, Men, Long
Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

Ugo Betti
Eye, Moments, Eternity
Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

Ugo Betti
Bullying, Unjust, Satisfaction
Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

Ugo Betti
Doctors, Police, Vague
Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!

Ugo Betti
Hate, Believe, Play
Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

Ugo Betti
Men, Ideas, Mad
Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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